Hello All,

Is it possible to limit memory quota per user (like disk quota) in linu=
x ?

AFAIK, RLIMIT_* (i.e. RSS, DATA) are applicable per process not per use=
r.

thankx a lot.
tharindu.


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Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi <btharindu [at] gmail.com> 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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but that is for lock memory per process, not per user ?


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On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Ezra Taylor <ezra.taylor [at] gmail.com> wro=
te:
> Tharindu:
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Check out /etc/security/limits=
=2Econf. =A0The variable to
> modify or add is memlock. =A0You can set hard and soft limits on this=
=2E
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi
> <btharindu [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Is it possible to limit memory quota per user (like disk quota) in l=
inux ?
>>
>> AFAIK, RLIMIT_* (i.e. RSS, DATA) are applicable per process not per =
user.
>>
>> thankx a lot.
>> tharindu.
>>
>>
>> "those that can, do. Those that can=92t, complain." -- Linus
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On Tuesday 08 June 2010 5:32:46 am Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> 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.
>
> thankx a lot.
> tharindu.
>
>
> "those that can, do. Those that can=92t, complain." -- Linus
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You can use the pam security limits feature.

Simply check that the module is being loaded in pam.d:

/etc/pam.d/system-auth:session required pam_limits.so

Then use the /etc/security/limits.conf file:
<user> soft|hard memlock <value>

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Alex Brandt wrote:

> > 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.

> You can use the pam security limits feature.
>
> Simply check that the module is being loaded in pam.d:
>
> /etc/pam.d/system-auth:session required pam_limits.so
>
> Then use the /etc/security/limits.conf file:
> <user> soft|hard memlock <value>

Memory limits are per-process, not per-user (and "memlock" controls
the amount of memory which can be mlock()d, which has little bearing
on memory usage overall).

The only per-user resource limit is the total number of processes.

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