Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured?
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 07:41:53PM +0100, piorunz wrote:
> And I wanted to highlight that this is not some trivial problem, at the
> moment any rogue non-privileged process running on user account, or
> simple coding error can destroy entire Linux session, be is a important
> server with many services running or just a normal PC, computer is
> totally unusable until manual intervention (hard reset by hand)!
Resource limits are a thing. man setrlimit (you may have to install
manpages-dev first).
Are they crude as hell? Absolutely. But they allow you to set up a
barrier that says "if you use more than x MB of memory, you die". They
work well enough for some cases.
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