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Date:      Tue, 29 Dec 1998 23:16:41 +0000
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        "Mark E. Rekai" <maxiter@inetu.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: setrlimit and forks
Message-ID:  <19981229231641.D17162@scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981229163246.0094ad60@wopr.inetu.net>
References:  <4.1.19981229163246.0094ad60@wopr.inetu.net>

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Mark E. Rekai wrote:

> I've got a C program which is used to run apache.  In a virtual server
> setting, we end up with quite a few instances of apache and would like to
> control their resource consumption.

You can configure the maximum number of processes Apache will allow to
run at once. Read the Apache manual.

> If I use setrlimit in my C program before apache is called, will this
> successfully set limits should a chile process fork (like apache)?  

Maybe, but you might also get error messages from Apache. It would
probably be better to use Apache's builtin limiting options.

-- 
Ben Smithurst
ben@scientia.demon.co.uk

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