On 12/01/2015 07:19 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
I have a pretty nice workstation, with 8 cores and 32G RAM.
A stupid little python program just killed it by consuming all the memory,
driving it into swapping hell.
I couldn't even ssh into it - I started up ssh and went for coffee. On
return I still didn't have a prompt. Had to power cycle it.
This is F23, everything is setup default regarding kernel memory policies,
etc.
So, can we configure things to give a better experience? Can we make this
default?
You can sure edit /etc/security/limits.conf and bugger values there
to limit it based on user IDs.
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