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[Bompa]

What Happens on unix When it Runs Out of Memory?

I just got a new vps for $6/mo.   

Of course the specs are as low as the price, for example, only 64M ram. CentOS 5, I think.

But, I'll only be running one script there afaik.

So what happens if my script uses all the ram?  Same as on Windows  Everything
just slows down as it accesses the drive?

Bompa

[nutballs]

It's so awesome it just makes more! (I'm pretending to be V )

[nop_90]

If it is a vps, usualy it will just not allow you to start anymore process.

[vsloathe]

Yep the proc limit would be a hard cutoff, running out of memory would make it start swapping. But a VPS is probably running the Xen kernel or similar, and would thus just cut you off if you ran out of memory until enough got freed up to resume.

[vsloathe]

It's so awesome it just makes more! (I'm pretending to be V )

lol I don't make stuff up

[nutballs]

hehe. i meant in the evangelical-linux sense that you have.

[krustee]

Mind pm'ing the company you got that deal with?

[Bompa]

Mind pm'ing the company you got that deal with?

I found them at https://superbytes.net/

but they are really http://kerplunchosting.com/

note: bare bones vps with ultra low resources.

[nutballs]

woot gonna try them out.

[krustee]

Theres an offer at https://www.burst.net/services.shtml aswell for $6 per month. Haven't tried them myself but the specs look alright:

VPS #1 (Virtual Private Server) - vePortal - CPU: 1GHZ, RAM: 512MB, DISKSPACE: 20GB, BANDWIDTH: 1000GB/MONTH

Again I haven't used them but it seems like a good deal. Comes with two ip's as standard.

*edit ramhost http://www.ramhost.us/?page=virtual-dedicated-server have vps starting from 2.99 a month and I have seen some good reviews.