limits.conf to set memory limits
- by Rupert Jipe
I would like to limit any process from using more than 500 MB of RAM. AFAIK this is done using RSS in /etc/security/limits.conf but the process called gnome-panel apparently is using 618436 kB of VmRSS. How can this be ?
/etc/security/limits.conf
* hard rss 512000
username@debian:~$ cat /proc/3002/status
Name:…