21 Jul
2009
21 Jul
'09
1:12 a.m.
From: Sean Carolan scarolan@gmail.com
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
Thanks, Paul. I knew I'd find an answer if I posted my question here.
While having hard limits makes it safer, wouldn't it be better to control the memory usage of the script instead of setting limits that would trigger an "out of memory"...?
JD