Re: [Nolug] Redhat 9 server eating ram like candy...

"Jeff" <jeffreydavidlee@hotmail.com> writes:

> Student programming assignments. Small C or java programs. It has
> about 3000 max user accounts and about 60 logged on at once

I remember adminning a system at Tulane that was used only for the
relatively small CS classes there.

Poorly written programs can easily use up all that memory and swap
(especially if you don't use limits).

Mark.

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