Re: limit process memory usage

2020-01-30 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Am Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:18:12 -0800 schrieb Julian Elischer : > start with the man page  man 1 limits and follow the "see also" links. Ah, great, that helps, thanks a lot! I wonder why I didn't find this before. I found rctl that is linked in the "see also" section of limits. However, there is

Re: limit process memory usage

2020-01-30 Thread Daniel Braniss
> On 31 Jan 2020, at 08:10, Gerrit Kühn wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have an application that sometimes develops some kind of memory leak > or similar and eats up all RAM within a few minutes until the system is > running out of memory and swap so the kernel starts randomly killing other >

limit process memory usage

2020-01-30 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Hello all, I have an application that sometimes develops some kind of memory leak or similar and eats up all RAM within a few minutes until the system is running out of memory and swap so the kernel starts randomly killing other processes and finally the crashes. Is there a way to limit the