For the new support of util-linux' prlimit to allow a command to be run http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/5039 I tried to find a useful example for the manpage.
I found a nice, huge file to feed sort with - /dev/zero, and my first try was to let the command be killed after 1 CPU second: ./prlimit --cpu=1 sort -u /dev/zero Don't do that! ;-) But as I was playing around with various different limits and values, sort sometimes segfaulted: prlimit --stack=1000 --memlock=100000 --rss=1000 sort -u /dev/zero Well, mostly (4/5 times) sort got correctly "Killed", but a segfault smells. Similar limit values (not leading to OOM killer) behaved the same. OpenSuSE-11.4, sort from git. Have a nice day, Berny
