[ale] user limits

[James Sumners]

Launch everything via a script that checks the limit and then issues
an xmessage[1]?

[1] -- http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/xmessage/

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> When a system uses pam, the file (typically) /etc/security/limits.conf
> can control limits for things like resident set size, stack size, number
> processes, login count, etc.
>
> What happens when a user hits a soft limit? A hard limit means the
> operation is not completed and/or fails.
>
> I'm looking for a way to notify users that they are pushing their luck
> opening another (eg - firefox) application as they are running out of
> ram.
>
> Jim Kinney
>
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