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From: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@tlen.pl>
Subject: Re: memory limit/quota per user
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:51:51 +0200
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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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