prevent out of memory

carloschoenberg_at_yahoo.com
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: 29 Jul 2004 15:36:20 -0700

Is there any way to configure a system so that a single user can not
run the system out of virtual memory? I want there to always be some
memory for root so that I can always ssh into the box or log in on the
console and kill the offending processes.

Please note that a per process limit less than available memory+swap
is not sufficient, because two processes can still run the system out
of memory.

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