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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 19:18:47 +0000
From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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Subject: Re: Resource Limits Within Jails
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On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 11:53:55 -0700
markham breitbach <markham@ssimicro.com> wrote:

> I am trying to figure out the best way to manage resource limits for a
> particular daemon within a jail (specifically memory usage), without
> having to limit the entire jail and other processes within.

	Not specific to jails but one way is to start the daemon from a
shell script and use ulimit to set resource limits before execing the
daemon.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>