Questions tagged [limits]
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Marking services for killing in a resource-starvation situation
We use systemd --user to run certain services of our own. In some cases, these "get out of hand" -- spawn way too many processes, which exhausts RAM and causes the machine to "thrash".
When this happens, kernel tries to kill some processes, but is…

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Can quotas and limits checked at organization level in Google cloud?
Please help me on my question,I spent a lot time to know the difference between quotas and limits and for checked out quotas at organization level.
As I am seeing some limits are their per organization level in IAm and VPC Quotas and limits section…

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RHEL8 Limits not applied when setuid is configured
I have configured my limits.conf file to allocate a huge stack size
* soft stack 65535
* hard stack 65535
ulimit -s shows the correct value for both root user and myuser
With this configuration in place, if…

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systemctl limits - solr complaining
I'm building a solr server (on Ubuntu 18.04, using the repo solr-common and solr-jetty). On startup, solr was reporting that nfile and nproc (1024, 6721 resp) was set too low. I ran systemctl edit solr and created an override as…

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Email limit on SMTP when the sender and receiver are under the same domain
In the company I work at, I have to setup our backend application to send a big amount of emails with updates to a customer (we have permission for that), but without using any 3rd party service apart from the current one that our company uses.…

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Add LimitNOFILE on haproxy init script
I want to add open files limit to HAProxy 1.8 process to 1024576. But since I use version 1.8, I cannot add LimitNOFILE to init scripts, instead of systemd file. How can I add limitNOFILE to those processes ?
*P.S: I had changed openfile on…

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Risks to increasing the IIS 7 --"Maximum Requesting Entity Body Limit"
IIS 7 -- "Maximum Requesting Entity Body Limit"
It is certainly easy enough to increase the field "Maximum Requesting Entity Body Limit" in IIS 7.
Has anyone encountered risks to increasing this limit past 1 000 000 ? (one million)?
This is for a…

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debian and yum packages - is there a way we can set max mem % and CPU % limits?
Is there a hard limit we can set on Debian and RPM packages? My thought is to put 20% CPU, 20% Memory and 200 MB Disk Usage hard limits. So the package can play within those limits and not beyond that.
On Googling I found bind and pam.limits can be…

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Limits configured but not applied to a daemon
On my CentOS 7, I use cat /proc//limits to see the actuel limit set. I got confirmation that this method is totally accurate here because I'm using it on MySQL, which can't dump a specific database with >8000 tables in it. If, by using prlimit…

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Limited to 1024 file descriptors [relates to ulimit -n]
I have a problem to setup shoutcastv2 for more than 1000 listeners. I always get the message as follows from shoutcast log. With shoutcast v1, I don´t have this problem.
INFO [MAIN] Limited to 1024 file descriptors [relates to ulimit -n]
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Nodejs: server doesn't close TCP connections
Facing a problem in the production server running debian (7.0) with nodejs (v0.10.x) cluster where it doesn't close some TCP connections to the clients.
This leads to connection drops when connection limit is reached.
Using ss -s tool I can monitor…

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What is the upper limit (maximum limit ) of WinRM MaxShellsPerUser
For executing the remote powershell commands i need to configure WsMan, In WsMan MaxShellsPerUser specifies the maximum number of concurrent shells that any user can remotely open on the same computer. If this policy setting is enabled, the user…

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Limit logons per user account in linux.
The current situation is that all users have local configured telnet connections to a red hat server running a simple telnet daemon. I would like to consolidate those locally configured telnet sessions into a emulator that runs in an RDP session.…

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How to set memory limit on OS level to overcome problems with "Burstable memory service"?
I have VPS. It has Burstable memory service. My guaranteed memory limit is 1GB. I want linux not to take more that 1GB to programs on OS level. How to do it?
It is ubuntu server.

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Finding the source of a ulimit setting
On my CentOS 6.2 server the value of ulimit -v (virtual memory) is 1048576. However, this is not set in /etc/security/limits.conf (which is empty) or .../limit.d/ (which contains only a max processes setting).
How can I find the source of this…

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