Hello all, Is there a way to limit the memory consumption and / or the CPU consumption of processes launched by the php functions system, exec, passthru, proc_open and shell_exec? We use mod_php with an apache (mpm-prefork) on Linux. The following settings don't have any effect at all: PHP: max_execution_time 30 memory_limit 8M Apache: RLimitCPU 30 30 RLimitMEM 8388608 8388608 The limits above do have effect on php-scripts (without system calls) and on CGIs (as well on processes launched by CGIs). Any Ideas? Kind Regards valli PS: I tested it with the following two scripts: system_memorytest.php ===================== <html> <head> <title>php-systemcall-memory test</title> </head> <body> php-systemcall-memory test<br> ... and here's the system call:<br> <pre> <?php $cmd = '/usr/bin/perl -e \' $| = 1; print "start of the systemcall<br>\n"; $s = "teststr_"; while (1) { print "len=".length($s)."<br>\n"; sleep(1); $s .= $s; } \''; print htmlspecialchars($cmd); ?> </pre> <?php ob_flush(); flush(); system($cmd); ?> </body> </html> system_timeouttest.php ====================== <html> <head> <title>php-systemcall-timeout test</title> </head> <body> php-systemcall-timeout test<br> ... and here's the system call:<br> <pre> <?php $cmd = '/usr/bin/perl -e \' $| = 1; print "start of the systemcall<br>\n"; $i = 0; while (1) { if (($i % 10000000) == 0) { print "i=".$i."<br>\n"; } $i += 1; } \''; print htmlspecialchars($cmd); ?> </pre> <?php ob_flush(); flush(); system($cmd); ?> </body> </html> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php