[CentOS] Top process automatically killed
Jim Perrin
jperrin at gmail.com
Tue Nov 21 13:25:14 UTC 2006
On 11/21/06, Abd El-Hameed Ayad <hamid at use-trade.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Can modifications to /etc/security/limits.conf cause top process to
> be automatically killed.
>
> First, Here is the contents of the /etc/security/limits.conf
>
> * hard cpu 2
> * soft nproc 5
> * hard nproc 10
> mailnull hard nproc 100
Your numbers seem VERY low except for mailnull.
I would really recommend restricting user groups instead of
EVERYTHING. I believe top may be using more resources than you've
allowed, and is being killed because of it.
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