[chuck-users] implementing a "wait for signal with timeout"

[mike clemow]

Hans,

ulimit is the ticket.  I'm going to try this tomorrow.  Thanks for the
tip--I'll let you know how it goes.

Cheers,
Mike

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Hans Aberg<haberg at math.su.se> wrote:
> On 10 Jun 2009, at 16:14, mike clemow wrote:
>
>> Linux 2.6 w/ realtime-patched kernel.  I run a cluster of headless AMD
>> Athlon machines with ChucK on each.  Each machine only has 256mb of
>> RAM, however, and I'm not surprised about the fact that ChucK can use
>> it all.  When it happens, the machine starts spewing error messages to
>> the console (which I never saw until I looked at the output of the
>> monitor--i usually login via ssh), which prevents me from logging in
>> and killing the process.  It also prevents me from logging in via ssh.
>> I want to send some of this output, which specifically mentions the
>> process named "chuck" and un-reclaimable memory, to you folks, but
>> it's going to be difficult to capture.
>>
>> I wonder if there's a way to specify a memory quota for a process in
>> Linux.  If it tries to use more, it gets killed by the OS...  I'm
>> speculating here.
>
> Yes, ulimit. It is tied to the shell. The stuff below is form 'man bash'. If
> you do not specify -S it sets a hard limit which can only be adjusted
> downwards. So -v -s and -d might be to set (in 1 kb increments).
>
>  Hans
>
>
> ----
> ulimit[−SHacdefilmnpqrstuvx[limit]]
> Provides control overthe resources available to the shell and to processes
> started by it, on systems
> that allowsuch control. The−Hand−Soptions specify that the hard or soft
> limit is set for the
> givenresource. Ahard limit cannot be increased once it is set; a soft limit
> may be increased up to
> the value of the hard limit. If neither−Hnor−Sis specified, both the soft and
> hard limits are set.
> The value oflimit can be a number in the unit specified for the resource or
> one of the special val-
> ueshard, soft, orunlimited, which stand for the current hard limit, the
> current soft limit, and no
> limit, respectively. Iflimit is omitted, the current value of the soft limit
> of the resource is printed,
> unless the−Hoption is given. Whenmore than one resource is specified, the
> limit name and unit
> are printed before the value. Otheroptions are interpreted as follows:
> −a All current limits are reported
> −c The maximum size of core files created
> −d The maximum size of a process’sdata segment
> −e The maximum scheduling priority ("nice")
> −f The maximum size of files written by the shell and its children
> −i The maximum number of pending signals
> −l The maximum size that may be locked into memory
> −m The maximum resident set size
> −n The maximum number of open file descriptors (most systems do not allowthis
> value to
> be set)
> −p The pipe size in 512-byte blocks (this may not be set)
> −q The maximum number of bytes in POSIX message queues
> −r The maximum real-time scheduling priority
> −s The maximum stack size
> −t The maximum amount of cpu time in seconds
> −u The maximum number of processes available to a single user
> −v The maximum amount of virtual memory available to the shell
> −x The maximum number of file locks
> Iflimit is given, it is the newvalue of the specified resource (the−aoption
> is display only). If no
> option is given, then−fis assumed. Values are in 1024-byte increments,
> except for−t, which is in
> seconds, −p, which is in units of 512-byte blocks, and−nand−u, which are
> unscaled values. The
> return status is 0 unless an invalid option or argument is supplied, or an
> error occurs while setting
> anew limit.
> ----
>
>



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