Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S274907AbTHFHr2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 03:47:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S274908AbTHFHr2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 03:47:28 -0400 Received: from sngrel7.hp.com ([192.6.86.111]:26367 "EHLO sngrel7.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S274907AbTHFHr0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 03:47:26 -0400 From: Martin Pool Subject: Re: Is it possible to add this feature. Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 17:47:16 +1000 User-Agent: Pan/0.14.0 (I'm Being Nibbled to Death by Cats!) Message-Id: References: <3F3049D0.6040804@hsdm.com> <20030806003054.GN6541@kurtwerks.com> <20030806005348.GB15764@matchmail.com> To: hsdm , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 830 Lines: 25 On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 17:53:48 -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:30:54PM -0400, Kurt Wall wrote: >> Quoth hsdm: >> > Is it posible to limit the amount of memory or CPU time per user? > Basically, no. > >> ulimit -m >> ulimit -t > > This is per session, and the user can have many sessions. Unless you > limit the number of sessions a user can have... Mike is correct that you cannot have system-wide per-user limits at the moment, at least in the standard kernel. However, it would be possible to add it, if you find somebody to develop it for you. -- Martin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/