20 Jul
2009
20 Jul
'09
12:23 p.m.
On 07/20/2009 05:28 PM, Sean Carolan wrote:
I have a perl script which runs from a cron job. How would you limit the amount of RAM that this script is allowed to consume? Is there a ulimit setting that will accomplish this? If so does ulimit have to be run each time the script is run, or is there a way to set it permanently?
First, install the perl module BSD::Resource
yum install perl-BSD-Resource
Then use it in your program like:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use BSD::Resource; setrlimit(RLIMIT_VMEM, 1_000_000, 1_000_000);
# rest of the program that is limited to 1MByte now
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Paul