On Mon 11-03-13 15:47:37, Nikola Ciprich wrote: [...] > I also tried limiting memory using cgroups, but even with limit of > 2MB, it can spawn much more processes than I'd like, and 1MB is too > low... If you were using memory cgroup then be aware that the controller covers only user space allocations by default which doesn't prevent forks from creating new processes. > Is it possible to limit number of processes using cgroups? You might be interested in KMEM (CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM) extension for memory cgroup (see Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt "2.7 Kernel Memory Extension (CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM)" for more information) -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html