Ulimits in Docker host vs container

The real limit will be 1048576. Have a look at the right part of this image, which shows that containers are basically just isolated processes, running on the same operating system: As every system call in the container will be handled directly by the host OS, the ulimit that is displayed (1048576) comes directly from … Read more

How to limit memory of a OS X program? ulimit -v neither -m are working

You can’t. Apple can (using the ledger() system call, which is private), but you can’t. I’m not entirely sure whether launchd’s options work or not – certainly if it was still using the code visible in the last open source version (from 10.9.5), it wouldn’t, because it calls setrlimit(), but it’s been substantially rewritten since … Read more

Python: ulimit and nice for subprocess.call / subprocess.Popen?

Use the preexec_fn parameter to subprocess.Popen, and the resource module. Example: parent.py: #!/usr/bin/env python import os import sys import resource import subprocess def setlimits(): # Set maximum CPU time to 1 second in child process, after fork() but before exec() print “Setting resource limit in child (pid %d)” % os.getpid() resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_CPU, (1, 1)) print “CPU … Read more

What does “ulimit -s unlimited” do?

When you call a function, a new “namespace” is allocated on the stack. That’s how functions can have local variables. As functions call functions, which in turn call functions, we keep allocating more and more space on the stack to maintain this deep hierarchy of namespaces. To curb programs using massive amounts of stack space, … Read more

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