25 Jul
2012
25 Jul
'12
9:40 p.m.
From: Alan McKay alan.mckay@gmail.com
Yesterday I had one of my scientists kill one of my servers when his program ran amok and gobbled up all the memory, or forked too many processes, or I'm just not exactly sure what to be honest.
Is there something I can run manually in cron to look for rampant programs and kill them? I know that may be hard to discern but I could also include a list if "known good" programs not to kill, as well as a list of "known suspect" user IDs
What about setting limits...? /etc/security/limits.conf
JD