From: Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
To: Alex Brandt <alunduil@alunduil.com>
Cc: Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi <btharindu@gmail.com>,
linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: memory limit/quota per user
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:56:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19483.49522.71124.816721@cerise.gclements.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201006180934.25657.alunduil@alunduil.com>
Alex Brandt wrote:
> > 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.
> You can use the pam security limits feature.
>
> Simply check that the module is being loaded in pam.d:
>
> /etc/pam.d/system-auth:session required pam_limits.so
>
> Then use the /etc/security/limits.conf file:
> <user> soft|hard memlock <value>
Memory limits are per-process, not per-user (and "memlock" controls
the amount of memory which can be mlock()d, which has little bearing
on memory usage overall).
The only per-user resource limit is the total number of processes.
--
Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-18 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ 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
[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 [this message]
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