Re: Limit RAM usage

From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 10:58:12 +1300

In message
<12b34412-00e8-420d-9c5c-320d7da0f67b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Martin
Hierholzer wrote:

The problem is, now processes still can take the whole system down by
allocating too much memory.

The OOM Killer should get them.
.

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