[Python-Dev] Re: What to do about the Wiki?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>> What was the cause of the break down ? A full disk or a process
>>> claiming all resources ?
>> A process running out of memory, AFAIK.
> 
> 
> In that case, wouldn't it be better to impose a memoryuse limit
> on the user which Apache uses for dealing with CGI
> scripts ? That wouldn't solve any specific Wiki related
> problem, but prevents the server from going offline because
> of memory problems.

Here's how Apache can be configured for this (without having
to fiddle with the Apache user account):

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#rlimitmem

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