[K12OSN] Limiting memory use

[Robert Arkiletian]

On 2/7/07, Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan at mac.com> wrote:
> I'm using Ubuntu 6.10.
>
> I teach programming and students will frequently create an infinitely
> recursive function that eats up more and more memory. If they don't
> realize what they've done and stop the program, eventually we run out of
> RAM, start hitting the virtual memory, and the whole lab comes to a
> grinding halt as the system thrashes itself to oblivion.
>
> Is there any way to limit the memory that a process can suck up so that
> this doesn't happen?

Look at file /etc/sysconfig/k12ltsp-limits

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