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Old 01-31-2006
problem with swap

Good morning

I have a problem with a partition (P570). A user's process take all the memory, and the swap. So the partition shutdown.
How can I limit a process to not take all the swap ?
(4 Go of memroy, 1 Go of swap)

thank you
# 2  
Old 02-01-2006
maybe the rss setting in /etc/security/limits

http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_l...les/limits.htm
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Old 02-02-2006
thank you !
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