Re: memory limit/quota per user

Michal Nazarewicz <[email protected]> Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:51:51 +0200

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Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi <[email protected]> writes:
> Is it possible to limit memory quota per user (like disk quota) in linux ?
>
> AFAIK, RLIMIT_* (i.e. RSS, DATA) are applicable per process not per user.

Unless something has changed recently, not with standard utilities.
Maybe SELinux or similar allows for something like that but otherwise
it's impossible.

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