Thanks!

On 6 February 2010 17:22, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:


>> I specifically wanted to find out which notebook was the one using
>> 15GB of ram with a maxima process!  (Our algebraic geometry lecturer
>
> You might not want to allow the sage worksheet processes to use that much ram.
> You could put
>
> ulimit -v 1000000
>
> to limit RAM to 1GB in that account's .bashrc and .bash_profile (make
> sure to make those files not writeable by the worksheet process
> though...).

Instead, I could add that to the "Worksheet process limits" field in
the "Notebook settings" web page?  Would that have the same effect
(i.e. on all the sever pool accounts)?

>
> In general, I don't know a simple way to find out which sage account
> launched a given process.  lsof might give a hint.
>


>>
>> I don't know if that is a bug or not.  I killed both the maxima
>> processes from the command line instead!  I hope my users will not
>> mind -- in any case, I am about to stop the server and restart it
>> running 4.3.2.

Which I just did.

>
> That sounds like a bug.
>
> Anyway, when you restart your notebook server, you may have to
> manually login to the sage worksheet process account and kill all
> processes.  The Sage notebook server only ever kills processes it
> knows about, so if anything gets left around, it'll never kill them.
>

I did that, thanks for the hint.

John

>>
>> John
>>
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