From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 18:20:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0511E16A4BF for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:20:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fte.fightevil.net (dsl093-132-098.sfo4.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.132.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42E5343FD7 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:20:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from njc@fightevil.net) Received: from fightevil.net (unknown [192.168.1.1]) by fte.fightevil.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6221E24F91; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:25:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3F8DF143.6060402@fightevil.net> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:15:47 -0700 From: njc User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031008 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas References: <3F8CEE86.1000507@fightevil.net> <20031015082005.GB3899@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20031015082005.GB3899@gothmog.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increasing per-process memory limits? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 01:20:10 -0000 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >Try reading the manual page of /etc/login.conf: > > man login.conf > >Another way of enforcing/changing the limits that a user process has is >through the 'limit' built-in command of tcsh or the /usr/bin/limits >system tool. More information about these in the tcsh(1) and limits(1) >manpages. > >- Giorgos > I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that I looked into this as well - the python process runs as root, which appears to have unlimited resource usage... that's kind of what confused me about this issue in the first place. Thank you for your response, though. -njc