On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:42:24 -0700, Platonides <platoni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Neil Harris wrote: >> Linux provides the setrlimit() system call for this purpose -- you could >> either call it as a wrapper around lilypond, or hack it into a de-fanged >> version of Lilypond. >> >> If you're going to be running an auxiliary rendering process or >> special-use server anyway, a few moments Googling finds the "softlimit" >> program, provided as part of the daemontools package, which looks like >> it is intended for providing the sort of limited sandboxing required >> here. >> >> - Neil > > We already have several ulimit.sh inside phase3/bin for that. > If LilyPond extension were using wfShellExec instead of exec, it would > be automatically limited by $wgMaxShellTime, $wgMaxShellMemory and > $wgMaxShellFileSize (unless on Windows). Does that even work? I've regularly had issues with convert commands that can't get enough mem to finish and are never killed so they sit in the process list hoarding it. -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
