[CentOS] Limit RAM used by a perl script
Paul Bijnens
paul.bijnens at xplanation.comMon Jul 20 20:23:38 UTC 2009
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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 -- Paul
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