On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Sean Carolan<scarolan at gmail.com> 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? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > If you run it as a regular user, then maybe you can check out /etc/security/limits.conf