I don't think this application runs as a parallel application in thread mode. There is only one process (in thread mode, ps/top commande line display thread processes) which bypass the limits.conf configuration. Normally the process shoud be killed if the memory limit will be reach ? Thanks. Le 20:59, m.roth at 5-cent.us a écrit : > Christophe Caron wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I run CentOS 5.6 on a Dell PowerEdge R815 with 256 GB of RAM. >> We use Sun Grid Engine to schedule jobs on this node. >> >> >> I want to limit the memory usage about 150 GB per process. > <snip> >> But, at least one process (oases - a bioinformatics tool) bypass this >> limitation and use always 240 GB of memory (the last run) !! > <snip> > Is there some way to limit the number of threads the job can have? We had > a problem like that - a user on a 48-core system that proceded, as the > final step of the job, to want half again as much memory as the system had > (256G!!!). After discussions, he limited what he submitted, so that's why > I wondered if you could control that administratively. > > mark > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 5103 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110604/869e4f1e/attachment-0005.p7s>