Re: [gentoo-user] limit maximum memory size of any process

2008-11-04 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Zhang, on Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 03:30:55PM +0800, you wrote: > > I interpret the above as "use a maximum of 300,000 KiB of memory, of > > which 300 may be resident (i.e. in physical memory) and 299,700 swapped > > out." That doesn't sound good, although I'm not sure I'm reading it > > correctly.

Re: [gentoo-user] limit maximum memory size of any process

2008-11-03 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Matthias Bethke wrote: > Hi Zhang, > on Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 06:24:00PM +0800, you wrote: >> I hope I can configure the system so that any process uses more than 50% >> of memory are automatically killed. first I was recommend to use ulimit >> by googling around. However this seems doesn't work eve

Re: [gentoo-user] limit maximum memory size of any process

2008-11-03 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Zhang, on Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 06:24:00PM +0800, you wrote: > I hope I can configure the system so that any process uses more than 50% > of memory are automatically killed. first I was recommend to use ulimit > by googling around. However this seems doesn't work even if I set both > -d and -m (h

Re: [gentoo-user] limit maximum memory size of any process

2008-11-03 Thread b.n.
Zhang Weiwu ha scritto: > So: is ulimit the solution? If so, what option should I set? My current > ulimit is: > > $ ulimit -a > core file size (blocks, -c) 0 > data seg size (kbytes, -d) 30 > scheduling priority (-e) 0 > file size (blocks, -f) unl

[gentoo-user] limit maximum memory size of any process

2008-11-03 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. In my daily us of computer any process that takes more than 50% of the memory (I read from top, not knowing if this is 50% of 384MB physical or 50% of having 800MB swap counted in) must have gone wrong, and usually drag performance down to such extent that killing it is impossible (because