On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> that's why you have per process limits set. Eg, PAM makes this
> exceedingly easy with pam_limit.so -> edit /etc/security/limit.conf.
>
> this prevents at least 90% of OOM situations (ie individual leaky
> processes). eg netscape will then pop-up "can not allocate memory"
> messages and stop rendering pages instead of crashing your system.
I wasn't aware PAM settings affected daemons started up during boottime
but I will check into it, thank you.
BTW, you said it works only 90%, what are the other 10% of times it
doesn't work?
>
> --paulj
>
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