Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 09:29:06 +0200 From: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: =?utf-8?Q?Gerrit_K=C3=BChn?= <gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: limit process memory usage Message-ID: <343BE867-E4EA-4D22-B465-0D5C2586A4A0@cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <20200131071032.20a9a379@arc.aei.uni-hannover.de>
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> On 31 Jan 2020, at 08:10, Gerrit Kühn <gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have an application that sometimes develops some kind of memory leak > or similar and eats up all RAM within a few minutes until the system is > running out of memory and swap so the kernel starts randomly killing other > processes and finally the crashes. > Is there a way to limit the memory available to an (or any) application so > that something like this doesn't tear down the whole system every time it > happens but just kills the culprit? I found the rctl tool, but I couldn't > make out how to use it for this purpose so far. > > limit — gives you the current settings and to change: limit memoryuse some-value > cu > Gerrit > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"help
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