[CentOS] prevent runaway PID taking down server (RAM/swap)
William L. Maltby
CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.comWed Jul 23 19:13:36 UTC 2008
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On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 14:36 -0400, Ed Donahue wrote: > Is there a way I can prevent processes from taking up all the ram then > swap until the box crashes/freezes? If the process is started from bash, whther by hand or script, I would think that bash's "ulimit" builtin would give what you need? "man bash", /ulimit To prevent a process from running wild, it would have to be non-root user I guess. > > I'm using IEs4Linux and the wineserver seems to start taking up RAM > until my box dies, it happens slowly. > > <snip> -- Bill
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