On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 10:30:34AM +0100, Joost de Heer wrote: > >>"This applies to processes forked off from Apache children servicing > >>requests, not the Apache children themselves." > >> > >>So not exactly what I proposed, unless I am understanding that wrong? > > > > > >If you want to limit the children themselves, then you want the standard > >ulimit controls available in your shell or whatnot. -- justin > > Because I want other processes to be able to grow larger than 20 MB. Would > be a rather useless database if it was limited to 20 MB memory....
Huh? You can set the ulimit for the duration of your httpd start up script. # (ulimit -m 256; ./apachectl start) The unit of measure for the ulimit command differs based on OS. -- justin
