Dan Anderson wrote:
> I'm creating an app that uses forks in a number of places to do things
> quicker.  Unfortunately, I have a bad habit of accidentally
> fork bombing
> my box.  Is there any way I can run a perl process (even if
> it's a Linux
> command) so that it wont eat up all available resources if I
> screw up?
> Or do I just need to learn to be more careful?

FreeBSD has a limits(1) command for this. I don't use Linux, so I don't know
if it has a similar thing...

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