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From: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@tlen.pl>
To: Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi <btharindu@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: memory limit/quota per user
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:51:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aar5g2so.fsf@erwin.mina86.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimOB5rMTRmHgz6ZcoTDZhZ3az4LuYdcBx3TRZak@mail.gmail.com> (Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi's message of "Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:32:46 +0100")

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Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi <btharindu@gmail.com> writes:
> Is it possible to limit memory quota per user (like disk quota) in linux ?
>
> AFAIK, RLIMIT_* (i.e. RSS, DATA) are applicable per process not per user.

Unless something has changed recently, not with standard utilities.
Maybe SELinux or similar allows for something like that but otherwise
it's impossible.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-08 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-08 10:32 memory limit/quota per user Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi
2010-06-08 11:51 ` Michal Nazarewicz [this message]
     [not found] ` <AANLkTimp6NZgSXfyrwB5GSOFxom6lLYsMBxdENCgqzUI@mail.gmail.com>
2010-06-08 12:41   ` Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi
2010-06-18 14:34 ` Alex Brandt
2010-06-18 18:56   ` Glynn Clements
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-06-08 10:27 Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi
2010-06-09  1:18 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki

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