[plug] Limiting processes resources

Bernard Blackham bernard at blackham.com.au
Sun May 20 22:20:13 WST 2001


On Sun, 20 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] Fabrício dos Anjos Silva wrote:
>     Is there a way of preventing programs to consume all the resources,
> as explained above, of the computer?

ulimit does this.
"ulimit -a" for list of current limits.

I figure this is bash specific though. Equivalents elsewhere I'm not sure
of.

man bash
/ulimit

Regards,

Bernard.

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