[plug] Limiting processes resources

[Beau Kuiper]

Hi,

look at the bash shell command ulimit. It allows you to limit serveral of the 
things unix processes can use.

Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au


On Sunday 20 May 2001 22:16, Fabrício dos Anjos Silva wrote:
>     Hi all,
>
>     I was reading Russ' message about "Linux Locking Up" and then
> I thought: This is happening because a program went out of control and
> got all the memory, all the processor time or all the process ID's (i.e.
> has too many childs).
>
>     Quota does a good job for disk resources, but what about the other
> resources?
>
>     Is there a way of preventing programs to consume all the resources,
> as explained above, of the computer?
>
>     Thanks,
>
> --
>
> Fabrício dos Anjos Silva <fasilva at dpi.ufv.br>
>
> Computer Science Undergraduate
> Graduando em Ciência da Computação

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