So the OP is asking for help figuring out how to manage these processes, and your response is to tell him that it's up to him to manage them? Not a particularly useful response.
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Richard Pieri <richard.pi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6/22/2015 6:40 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote: > >> That doesn't (necessarily) address the issue I was raising about an out >> of control app wreaking havoc on the rest of the system. Just a >> different flavor of havoc. >> > > Yes, it does. The kernel isn't there to baby sit. It's there to allocate > resources when processes request them. It is up to you, the user or the > administrator, to manage those processes. It isn't the kernel's > responsibility to do this for you. > > Hint: man prlimit > > -- > Rich P. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email: abre...@gmail.com / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
