Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libperfuse

[manu%netbsd.org@localhost (Emmanuel Dreyfus)]

matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> wrote:

> this seems like the wrong answer.  if rlimits aren't enough, then the
> *user* should be increasing them, not the system.

The problem is that we have no way to pass that as a mount option, and
no way to evaluate how much memory will b e required.

> additionally, why does it have to have so much memory?  surely most of
> it is a cache?  can't it manage the size?

Indeed it is cache. You cannot expect filesystems to let you control
that. Speaking of FUSE it seems they will not let you do it since Linux
data size is unlimited by default.


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