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From: ebiederm+eric@ccr.net (Eric W. Biederman)
To: leiyin_linux@163.net
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: none
Date: 07 Apr 1999 10:09:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1r9pwwjqf.fsf@flinx.ccr.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: root's message of "Tue, 27 May 1997 21:36:16 +0800"

>>>>> "leiyin" == root  <root@ns.senbell.com.cn> writes:

leiyin> I am leiyin, a software engineer in china, beijing. I am interested
leiyin> in Linux memory management these day. Since I find an ordinary user
leiyin> can easily occupy all the memory available. Though I don't think this is 
leiyin> a bug. I wonder whether I can control how much memory a user can occup
leiyin> ,including swap space, or not.

yes.

The kernel interface is setrlimit, the user interface is usually
through the shell ulimit command.
The only per user limit I know of is number of processes.
The rest of the limits, stack size, virtual memory size etc, are per processs.

leiyin> Especially in AS400 OS/400 one can distribute a fixed size physical memory
leiyin> (pool) for a subsystem. If Linux can do this( I mean a fixed size memory for
leiyin> a user not subsystem), I think linux will become more lovely.


leiyin> Address:leiyin_linux@163.net
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      reply	other threads:[~1999-04-07 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-05-27 13:36 root
1999-04-07 15:09 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]

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