Re: [CentOS] prevent runaway PID taking down server (RAM/swap)

2008-07-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 14:36 -0400, Ed Donahue wrote: > Is there a way I can prevent processes from taking up all the ram then > swap until the box crashes/freezes? If the process is started from bash, whther by hand or script, I would think that bash's "ulimit" builtin would give what you need? "

Re: [CentOS] prevent runaway PID taking down server (RAM/swap)

2008-07-23 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 02:36:11PM -0400, Ed Donahue wrote: > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Is there a way I can prevent processes from taking up all the ram then >swap until the box crashes/freezes? >I'm using IEs4Linux and the wineserver seems to start taking up RAM >until my box