Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: System hang problem. | Date | Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:44:04 -0700 | From | "Manish Neema" <> |
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> What you can often do, if you have one application using much memory, > is limiting *this application's* memory usage with ulimit. If the > application correctly handles malloc()==NULL, then at least your > system will behave stably.
The problem is its different application, different user each time (a typical large R&D environment). /etc/security/limits.conf allows to set max resident set size. Is there a way to limit based on the total virtual size?
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