Jay Kline writes: > On a server I admin there is a custom application that likes to > consume large ammounts of memory. Apparently, there are no checks > within the application when it allocates memory because it seems to > kill the box occationally. UNIX has a wonderful thing called resource limits, or rlimits. See getrlimit(2) and setrlimit(2). If you have an sh compatible shell, you can set resource limits using ulimit. An easy way to run a program with new resource limits is softlimit: http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/softlimit.html -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list