From: Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> > Yesterday I had one of my scientists kill one of my servers when his > program ran amok and gobbled up all the memory, or forked too many > processes, or I'm just not exactly sure what to be honest. > > Is there something I can run manually in cron to look for rampant > programs and kill them? I know that may be hard to discern but I > could also include a list if "known good" programs not to kill, as > well as a list of "known suspect" user IDs What about setting limits...? /etc/security/limits.conf JD