[REBOL] Re: Limiting Serie sizes (native!)
From: nitsch-lists:netcologne at: 14-Aug-2003 15:03
Rebolinth wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>I was wondereing..perhpas wandering too...
>
>Is "Limiting Series" perhpas a good idea for an option inside rebol ?
>
>Example:
>
>a normal i.e. block has NO endling (yes the memory limit?)
>a limited block would have a limit of i.e. max 3 entries
>
>Like ->
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>a: copy []
>
>or
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>a: copy/limit [] 3
>
>{which would create a series but with a static maximum size !
>If the size exceeds i.e. with append or insert or whatever then NONE /
ERROR
>is returned.}
>
>Is this featurable or more a de-feature for rebol ?
>
Pretty much no-feature IMHO.
You want to restrict complete memory-usage, not size of a single block.
On linux /etc/profile:ulimit -v 396000 #jdk1.4+mozilla #something -v
640000 on a 640mb-machine
IMHO ulimit inbuild could make sense, as well as time-restrictions,
because scripts can terminate cleaner.
throwing a heavy transaction away instead of writing to half the files
and then hard-crash.
but yu have to address machine-capacities, limits should be different
for 128MB or 640MB-machine.
Also specially mold could use limits, so molding system stops after some mb.
-Volker