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Subject: RE: Killing/balancing processes when overcommited
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Thunder from the hill <thunder@lightweight.ods.org>
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On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 20:08, Thunder from the hill wrote:

> These problems can be solved via ulimit. I was referring to things like 
> rsyncd which was blowing up under certain situations, but runs under a 
> trusted account (say UID=0). In order to condemn it you'd need the setup 
> I've mentioned.

Ulimit won't help you one iota

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