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Set total memory limit with Torque
I run a moderately sized cluster and I am having a queue problem. For example I have a node with 128GB of memory and a program that I set the amount of memory per core. So for example if I set memory ...
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setting limit.conf for asterisk(*) not work
My environment is Ubuntu 10.10
I'm setting /etc/security/limits.conf, also enable pam_limits.so module.
* soft nofile 64000
* hard nofile 65000
But it's not working.
Login as root and 'ulimit ...
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Using mod-php and prefork MPM, is mysql.max_links “per hit”?
Looking at mod_php configuration, I've stumbled upon the mysql.max_links and mysql.max_persistent variables.
The documentation says those limits are "per process", and since I'm using the prefork MPM ...
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Dovecot ignoring maximum number of IMAP connections
I have a single mailbox mail server running Dovecot/Postfix and I have two IMAP clients, Thunderbird on the PC and K9 on Android. I keep on receiving this error in my logs even after I change the ...
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Bizarre Site Slowdown for Some Users with .htaccess Directive
To protect my website on a shared hosting plan, I added this to my .htaccess file:
<Limit GET HEAD POST>
order deny,allow
deny from .ru
deny from .cn
deny from .in
deny from .de
deny from .cz
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Applying memory limits to screen sessions
You can set memory usage limits for standard Linux applications in: /etc/security/limits.conf
Unfortunately, I previously thought these limits only apply to user applications and not system services. ...
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Iptables: how do I LOG what's not being ACCEPTED and limit what gets logged?
How do I log what's not being accepted by the following rule:
iptables -A OUTPUT -p icmp --icmp-type 3 -m -limit --limit 10/minute -j ACCEPT
And how do I limit what's being logged because I don't ...
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Iptables ratelimit UDP DOS attacks
Well, I've been a victim of Ddos attacks and I really can't figure out how to avoid it. On some machines it works, while on some it doesn't or probably I'm doing it wrong in some way,
Attackers are ...
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MySQL file limit. Error Out of resources
I was benchmarking my database the other day using mysqlslap, and I ran into a "Out of resources when opening file '/tmp/somefile' (Errcode: 24)" error.
I with a few click on google, I found a ...
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Rate/Bandwidth limiting with haproxy, what are the options?
I have tried reading up on different methods of limiting (rate/bw) with haproxy,
but seems the only working implementation I find is per /32 ip based limit.
Is it possible to do rate limiting based on ...
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How to safeguard a shell script against running out of control?
I've recently had an experience of writing a shell script which crashed a server (and damaged a partition) by consuming all resources. It was hooked up to a cron job, and it seems it took longer to ...
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Exhausting Linux machine TCP socket limit (~70k)?
I am the founder of torservers.net, a non-profit that runs Tor exit nodes. We have a number of machines on Gbit connectivity and multiple IPs, and we seem to be hitting a limit of open TCP sockets ...
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How do I limit the download speed for my web site?
Is there a way to limit download bandwidth (or download speed) for my web site in Windows Server 2008?
I do not want any limitations for viewing my web site and loading pages, just for downloads.
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IPtables rate-limit, What are the differences between modules? Recent, Limit
I am doing some rate-limiting with IPtables, and i'm not sure if I should use "Recent" or "Limit"
What are the differences between the two? If they both achieve the same result, which one has ...
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Maximum number of groups in Linux
I have several questions about linux groups
Is there a limit to the number of groups a user can create?
Is there a limit to the total number of groups in a system?
Is there a limit to the number of ...
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CFS hardlimit in cgroups
I recently moved to KVM. Previously I was using xen and its capping feature in credit scheduler. Where we can set a cpu cap for a VM. I was searching for a similar feature to set hard limits on a VM ...
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nginx with php5-fpm, maximum execution time exceeded
In php.ini I have set "max_execution_time = 1200", phpinfo() confirms that, but my script stops after 300 seconds with message:
"PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded"
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how to limit memory size a process can consume in linux
I am trying to figure out how to limit memory usage of mongo daemon to 4G.
I thought to use limits.conf with memlock but I am not sure that's the right way to do it.
from limits.conf man page I've ...
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How to limit bandwidth in CentOS using htaccess and not httpd.conf?
I'm trying to limit bandwidth in centOS. I have tried using bw_module, cband_module and bandwidth_module, but all of those required to use the httpd.conf and must restart httpd!
I have to do this ...
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Apache - Limit max number of simultaneous connections from an external IP?
I would like to set a maximum limit for the number of connections that can be made to Apache from a single external IP address.
What would be the best way to achieve this?
Thanks
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Nginx config / site limits
I'm currently hosting about 30 websites with very low traffic with Nginx (~30k page views a day) and having no issues. I am curious how many sites you can comfortably run on a server, assuming at ...
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Apache + mod_wsgi (python/django): error 405 on form submission
I have a form with method="POST"
<form id="home-searchform" method="POST" action="test_list/">{% csrf_token %}
and i'm running apache2 with mod_wsgi for my django application
When i try to ...
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Debian virt/res/shr and cpu time limiting
Servers have multiple users running multiple programs, some of which don't seem to behave and will eat up RAM like there is no tomorrow, for example:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU ...
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Servers rejecting mails with “500 Line limit exceeded”
I am dispatching a few mails (mainly order confirmations) from a webshop using a php mail class. The mails are sent via a local Exchange/SMTP server.
In the majority of cases this works fine and ...
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Limit Apache Proxy upload speed per connection/ip?
I looked at mod_bandwidth and mod_cban but they dont seem to satisfy my requirements.
I am running a proxy server with apache 2.2 (mod_proxy, proxy_http, proxy_connect).
I want to limit the "upload ...
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Hardware bandwidth limiter
Really not sure if this is the place to be asking this, but here goes..
Our company has grown exponentially in the last year. As such, our internet connection needs some serious managing and limiting ...
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Apache2 - Limit download speed
I am trying to find a way to limit the download speed from my server. I found the module mod_bandwidth but there is no howto on apache2.2, only for 1.3.x.
How can I limit the download speed. I have ...
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How can I limit exim4 processes for outgoing emails?
Does anybody know how I can set a limit for exim4 processes because an application send to our smtp server 4000+ mails and crashed it. I try to add
queue_run_max=20
in ...
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how to limit maxlogin for a port forward over ssh user who Do not execute a remote command
I have some users, who connect to my server through the ssh for port forwarding and ssh tunneling, but there is a problem:
I cannot limit their concurrent logins, because they have no session and ...
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Is there a limit on the number on named pipes that can be created on a Linux machine?
And if so, how do we increase it - the named pipes are created using mkfifo command -
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Help on configuring iptables for openvpn
I am trying to setup a openvpn server for group of people but I have problem with configuring iptables rules.
the box have 5 Dedicated IP address and I want to use one of ips that is not the default ...
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Can I limit my SSH Tunneling Speed? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I limit my SSH Tunneling Speed?
So, I'm kind of making sshusers for ssh tunneling to surf some content which is blocked by my country. But, I don't want somebody to ...
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Simultaneous Requests To Site With JS Cause CPU Spike
someone is making many requests to a specific page on my site that has JS on it. Subsequently, it's driving the CPU load to 100+ if I don't restart apache.
What I tried:
- Reduce KeepAlive timeout
- ...
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Whitelist file type on vsftpd on CentOS
I have CentOS server running on unix, and vsftpd FTP server installed.
I did chroot for users and now I'm trying to limit their file type upload.
I don't want to use deny_file because deny_file limit ...
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Cisco Pix - how many clients or peer sites supported?
I read that a cisco pix 506e supports up to 25 vpn peers (sites), and unlimited clients (machines connected with the cisco vpn software?).
The lowest cost option would seem to be to install the vpn ...
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Apache Limit directive not working as expected
I want to use 'Limit' to allow GETs and POSTs, to a page requiring authentication, from only certain sites. I want authentication for GETs and POSTs from a certain IP, who should be able to access ...
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Apache limit users per month to certain vhost
Is there a way in apache to limit the amount of users that can view a site in a certain month? I'd need to do this for individual vhosts.
Something along the lines of:
<VirtualHost *:80>
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apache - Can't upload >2GB file
Uploading files in our app works fine until we hit one that's > 2GB.
error_log shows:
Invalid Content-Length
(-3)Unknown error: Error reading request entity data
I've rebuilt the latest apache ...
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LAN-intern solution for server-side auto-IP-block
We got the problem, that our web server provider blocks our static IP address automatically, when we reach 200 simultaneous connections in the time window of 300 seconds. I'm running an Ubuntu server ...
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Limiting bandwith per user?
We need to modify our bandwidth usage (per user on our site). I would want to limit bandwidth per ip,,. Basically we want the users who connects to our webstie to only be able to (download @ 2.5Mbps ...
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Upper memory limit apache
I have a big php script that needs a gigabyte or more to run. I set the memory_limit in php.ini to 2048M. If I echo the limit with ini_get, I get the 2048M as expected. But when I run the script it ...
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postfix rate limiting
I did add a new slow transport to my Postfix configuration but this doesn't looks to work Messages passes correctly in the slow transport but they aren't rate limited.
Currently, I'v been setting ...
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ProFTPD: Disable writing and deleting to a particular directory
How would I prevent writing and deleting to the ~/site/backups/ directory in the ProFTPD config?
So far: I think I have figured out how to disable any kind of deleting:
<Directory ...
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VFS: file-max limit 1231582 reached
I'm running a Linux 2.6.36 kernel, and I'm seeing some random errors. Things like
ls: error while loading shared libraries: libpthread.so.0: cannot open shared object file: Error 23
Yes, my system ...
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25TiB for /home from 16TiB, what to do with ext3?
I have recently lvextend my logical volume (where /home is) from 16TiB to 25TiB. However, when I try to run extend2fs on my /dev/vtrak/home, it complains that
resize2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
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VPS : How to deal to servers without swap?
I have recently deployed a java application on a VPS but It keeps crashing because the JVM runs out of memory after a while.
I never had this issue on other 'low memory' servers thanks to the swap but ...
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limit usb stick usage for users
We need to disallow access to usb stick on win2k3, though allowing access for some specific user and admin team.
Is it possible ?
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Memory allocation and limits on debian 2.6.26
On our server we have different users that need sometimes a big amount of memory (up to 40Gb). The total of our server is 128 Gb, but recently it crashed due to different users taking up together all ...
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Pushing new mailbox limits for Exchange 2003 accounts
There is this problem that I have every time I set up an account for a user on Exchange 2003. After I update the Mailbox limit to unlimited in the Exchange tab in the user preferences it does not seem ...
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Exchange 2007 - mailbox limits doesn't work
A mailbox was migrated from Exchange 2003 to 2007. The mailbox limits (4.0gb, 4.2gb, 4,4gb) were kept as they we're over default size. The user cannot send mails though the size is under the limit ...
