Re: [gentoo-user] limit maximum memory size of any process

2008-11-04 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Zhang, on Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 03:30:55PM +0800, you wrote: I interpret the above as use a maximum of 300,000 KiB of memory, of which 300 may be resident (i.e. in physical memory) and 299,700 swapped out. That doesn't sound good, although I'm not sure I'm reading it correctly. Sorry,

Re: [gentoo-user] limit maximum memory size of any process

2008-11-03 Thread b.n.
Zhang Weiwu ha scritto: So: is ulimit the solution? If so, what option should I set? My current ulimit is: $ ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) 30 scheduling priority (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited

Re: [gentoo-user] limit maximum memory size of any process

2008-11-03 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Zhang, on Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 06:24:00PM +0800, you wrote: I hope I can configure the system so that any process uses more than 50% of memory are automatically killed. first I was recommend to use ulimit by googling around. However this seems doesn't work even if I set both -d and -m (here

Re: [gentoo-user] limit maximum memory size of any process

2008-11-03 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Zhang, on Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 06:24:00PM +0800, you wrote: I hope I can configure the system so that any process uses more than 50% of memory are automatically killed. first I was recommend to use ulimit by googling around. However this seems doesn't work even if I