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Re:The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low mem... by TheDong on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @09:05PM (#20631149)
systemd lets you configure soft and hard limits on a per-service level, almost identically to launchd. See MemoryHigh= and MemoryMax= [1].

This does depend on cgroupsv2, but it works on most modern distros.

[1]: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.res...

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Re:The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low mem... by azinman2 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @12:52PM (#20636479)
Oh nice! Thanks for the pointer!
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