[CentOS] /etc/security/limits.conf : rss

Sat Jun 4 16:47:02 UTC 2011
Christophe Caron <christophe.caron at sb-roscoff.fr>

I don't think this application runs as a parallel application in thread 
mode. There is only one process (in thread mode, ps/top commande line 
display thread processes) which bypass the limits.conf configuration.

Normally the process shoud be killed if the memory limit will be reach ?

Thanks.


Le 20:59, m.roth at 5-cent.us a écrit :
> Christophe Caron wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I run CentOS 5.6 on a Dell PowerEdge R815 with 256 GB of RAM.
>> We use Sun Grid Engine to schedule jobs on this node.
>>
>>
>> I want to limit the memory usage about 150 GB per process.
> <snip>
>> But, at least one process (oases - a bioinformatics tool) bypass this
>> limitation and use always 240 GB of memory (the last run) !!
> <snip>
> Is there some way to limit the number of threads the job can have? We had
> a problem like that - a user on a 48-core system that proceded, as the
> final step of the job, to want half again as much memory as the system had
> (256G!!!). After discussions, he limited what he submitted, so that's why
> I wondered if you could control that administratively.
>
>        mark
>
>

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