On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 at 12:48pm, Mag Gam wrote > Running 5.2 at our university. We have several student's processes > that take up too much memory. Our system have 64G of RAM and some > processes take close to 32-48G of RAM. This is causing many problems > for others. I was wondering if there is a way to restrict memory usage > per process? If the process goes over 32G simply kill it. Any thoughts > or ideas? Have a look at /etc/security/limits.conf. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF