Brian McGroarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to ensure that apache and exim never starve other programs > for memory by limiting their resident set sizes to a total of 6 and > 4 megs apiece. I'm fine with these running slowly. > > [ ... ] > > bash's inbuilt ulimit command doesn't seem to include an RSS option, > so I'm not sure I can run that before each daemon to force the > resident set size.
RSS stands for "resident set size." That in mind, quoting bash(1): ulimit [-SHacdflmnpstuv [limit]] [ ... ] -m The maximum resident set size [ ... ] Hope this helps, Lucas -- Lucas Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tired of getting duplicate copies of mailing list messages? I respect the 'mail-followup-to' header field: http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]