A while back I wrote a little thing about process memory resourcelimits . Today I feel like elaborating on why this isa hard problem that people haven't solved yet.

Let's consider the simplest case possible: per-process RSS limits. Inthe abstract, this is simple; you keep track of how many physical pagesa process has in its page tables, and when a process that is at its RSSlimit wants to add a new page, it must first release its mapping foran existing one

These days, many Python modules make a habit of being selective aboutwhat names they allow to be visible to the outside world; you onlyexpose the official, externally visible interfaces and so on.

This leads me to a thesis: all modules should make visible theirfundamental types, in the same way that the types module makes visible namesfor built-in types. Note that this doesn't reveal any previouslyinaccessible things; outside people could already just use your regularinterfaces to instantiate an instance of the type they

In the Author style of brief notes on things that I ran into elsewhere ( via Author , of course): I actuallyfind the current lack of fighting in Kampfer to be pretty realistic.

All of the Kampfers are theoretically ordinary highschool kids whobasically got drafted against their will. It feels entirely right thatthey are generally unenthusiastic about actually beating each otherup, or even theoretically killing each other, regardless of what theModerators may want them to do, and that they would much rather hang outand talk with each