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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 21:43, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> > Ulimit won't help you one iota
> 
> Why so pessimistic? You can ban users using ulimit, as you know. (You will 
> always remember when you wake up and your memory is ulimited to 1MB.)

Because I've run real world large systems before. Ulimit is at best a
handy little toy for stopping web server accidents.

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