Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:48:02 +0000 | From | Carlos Morgado <> | Subject | Re: Overcomittable memory |
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 08:32:39AM +0000, James Sutherland wrote: > On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Proper per-user resource limits, OTOH, WOULD be a good thing IMO. They > wouldn't completely solve the problem, but should certainly make it much > more difficult for Joe Random Luser to "malloc-bomb" the box - he'd just > eat up his quota instead. >
It's called rlimits. You can setup a loginshell wrapper like all the well admined shell account boxes do.
You mean per-process resource limits, and not having that is one of the things that make us faster than vms :)
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