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Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured?

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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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Out of memory killer misconfigured? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-03-29 11:40 +0200
  Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? Sven Hoexter <sven@stormbind.net> - 2022-03-29 12:10 +0200
    Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-03-29 20:40 +0200
      Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2022-03-30 10:20 +0200
        Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-03-31 19:00 +0200
          Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2022-04-20 12:30 +0200
            Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-04-20 17:30 +0200
              Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2022-04-20 18:20 +0200
                Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-04-20 19:50 +0200
                Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-20 20:40 +0200
    Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-03-29 20:50 +0200
      Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-03-29 21:20 +0200
        Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-03-29 22:10 +0200
          Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-03-29 22:20 +0200
    Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-03-29 21:00 +0200
      Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2022-03-29 21:20 +0200
      Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-04-01 08:10 +0200
        Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-04-15 03:10 +0200
          Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-04-15 08:00 +0200
            Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-04-15 12:10 +0200
              Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-04-15 12:20 +0200
                Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-04-18 22:10 +0200
                Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2022-04-19 17:50 +0200
                Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-04-19 18:10 +0200
                Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2022-04-19 22:10 +0200
  Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured? Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2022-04-20 12:30 +0200

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