Re: prevent runaway PID taking down server (RAM/swap)

["William L. Maltby" <CentOS4Bill@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 14:36 -0400, Ed Donahue wrote:
> Is there a way I can prevent processes from taking up all the ram then
> swap until the box crashes/freezes?

If the process is started from bash, whther by hand or script, I would
think that bash's "ulimit" builtin would give what you need? "man
bash", /ulimit

To prevent a process from running wild, it would have to be non-root
user I guess.

> 
> I'm using IEs4Linux and the wineserver seems to start taking up RAM
> until my box dies, it happens slowly.
> 
> <snip>

-- 
Bill


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