[Discuss] memory management

[John Abreau]

So the OP is asking for help figuring out how to manage these processes,
and your response is to tell him that it's up to him to manage them? Not a
particularly useful response.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 6/22/2015 6:40 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
>
>> That doesn't (necessarily) address the issue I was raising about an out
>> of control app wreaking havoc on the rest of the system.  Just a
>> different flavor of havoc.
>>
>
> Yes, it does. The kernel isn't there to baby sit. It's there to allocate
> resources when processes request them. It is up to you, the user or the
> administrator, to manage those processes. It isn't the kernel's
> responsibility to do this for you.
>
> Hint: man prlimit
>
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