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Old 02-10-2012
memory limits

hello..
My task now is to set memory limits to users in a linux system. I found out two ways, one is using disk quotas and the other is using PAM. But my question here is what is the difference between these two. We have 'memlock' in PAM and we can set limits using quota also. Are they both same?? Please help..
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Old 02-10-2012
diskquota's are for storage space - secondary memory ( normally hard disk ). not for memory !!
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Old 02-14-2012
Thank you thegeek.. I understood it
 
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