On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 07:19:41AM +0200, Frédéric wrote: > Hi, > > It happens sometimes that someone launches a process that uses too > much memory. Then the computer starts swapping leaving the computer > completely out of use. When the swap is full (I guess), the process is > automatically killed and we can work again. But this can last 10-15 > minutes. > > Would it be possible to kill any process using more than some LIMIT > memory? The aim being to kill it before it starts swapping. > > Note that I am using F27 for now. > > Thanks in advance, > I've never had to use it, but what about setting the process max memory with "ulimit -m"? jl -- Jon H. LaBadie jonfu@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/B24UFK7RUKUARLDJ3GXVOPLD7XS7IZNO/
