From: Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> > > While having hard limits makes it safer, wouldn't it be better to control the > > memory usage of the script instead of setting limits that would trigger an "out > > of memory"...? > How would you control the memory usage of the script if it's run by > the root user? By control I meant to design the script to use a specific amount of RAM, instead of letting it vampirise all available memory... JD