so... do the testsuite memory limits work?

[Zack Weinberg]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 03:32:45PM -0700, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> 
> Zack, last night I activated testsuite memory limits, which you've been 
> most interested in establishing. Have you had a chance to work with these
> patched library testsuite sources? Is this satisfactory? It seems to make 
> 'make check' much more transparent.
> 
> It seems to work nicely on linux, at least. I'd be interested in hearing 
> how this has changed/improved other platforms.

I only have access to Linux at the moment.

I just ran the libstdc++ test suite while simultaneously playing music,
running a cvs update, and reading Usenet, and xmms did not skip even once.
Before, my entire X session would become unresponsive for minutes on end.

Thanks to all for solving this problem.

zw