RE: Killing/balancing processes when overcommited

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
12 Sep 2002 21:55:47 +0100

On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 21:43, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> > Ulimit won't help you one iota
>
> Why so pessimistic? You can ban users using ulimit, as you know. (You will
> always remember when you wake up and your memory is ulimited to 1MB.)

Because I've run real world large systems before. Ulimit is at best a
handy little toy for stopping web server accidents.

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