Havoc Pennington (hp@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > Maybe a cap on process size, so there can be 1G virtual memory but an > individual app can only use 512M? Maybe when a process reaches 512M we > could suspend it and ask the user whether to > let it grow further? You can set rlimits; you can also turn off overcommit. Doesn't help the yum/rpm case, of course. Bill