MSI: indentation and style cleanup

[Andreas Mohr]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:02:56AM +0100, Rolf Kalbermatter wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 05:16:45PM +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:
> 
> > Given that it can be quite complex and introduce new bugs, and given that
> > it's really quite a useless feature IMHO as modern Linux boxes will hang
> > themselves in swap hell before returning NULL from malloc I don't think
> > this should be a janitorial project.
> 
> While I agree this may be not an easy thing to do without looking at the
> whole code very throughly I think saying that it doesn't help at all because
> on Linux you will never get this problem is a little shortsighted. Wine
> doesn't only compile for Linux and there might be other systems with a very
> straightforward swapping system which will run out of memory before the disk
> dies from overactivity. Also who says that the next version of Linux or some
> sort of stress test extension, a security hardened kernel, or a memory quota
> system on user basis or whatever, will not add an easy to get into out of memory
> situation. Couldn't Solaris for instance limit the memory available to users
> on a user base eventhough there are loads and loads of physical memory still
> available?
Why Solaris?
A ulimit -S -m 10000000 should do the very same thing, no?
Hmm, maybe not on Wine, since Wine uses "special" memory management...

Andreas Mohr