[K12OSN] Setting memory limits in lts.conf

Eric Harrison eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Sat Jul 23 20:06:38 UTC 2005


On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, John Baillie wrote:

> Has anyone heard of, or tried the following?
>
>
> " I strongly suggest you set suitable memory limits
> in /etc/security/limits.conf. I use:
>
> @users soft rss 512000
> @users soft memlock 256000
> @users soft as 768000
> # Set to 7168 by RH defaults
> #@users soft nproc 5000
>
> Just to stop users from forkbombing the system accidentally, or a
> runaway process from eating all the physical RAM and forcing the system
> into heavy swapping. It works extremely well. Adapt the above, of
> course, to your memory allocations etc. "

You can also edit /etc/sysconfig/k12ltsp-limits and set K12LTSP_LIMITS="YES"

-Eric




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