Memory consumption on a per user basis [FOLLOW-UP]

[Boruch Baum]

I hit _send_ to quickly... The simple script that I proposed suffers
from the problem that it would kill one of your own processes if you are
the offending user, ont one of your students; likewise, it would
blithely kill a system process, or an essential cronjob, or a server.

You can modify the 'smem' command to use its 'user filter' option (see
the man page) to come up with a regex to limit its output to just those
users whose processes you are comfortable killing. The regex can be as
simple as (user1)|(user2)|...|(usern) ; I don't see how to use UID
numbers, but it might be possible.

  smem -U "$YOUR_REGEX" -c pid | tail -n1


On 2018-11-11 10:16, Boruch Baum wrote:
>   NAUGHTY="$(smem -c pid | tail -n1)"
               smem -U "$YOUR_REGEX" -c pid
if [ -z "$NAUGHTY" ] ; then
  printf "The guilty party isn't one of the students... its
  $(smem |tail -n1)\n"
  exit
fi
>   for SIG in 15 15 15 9 9
>   do
>     kill -$SIG $NAUGHTY
>     printf "Sending signal $SIG to process $NAUGHTY\n"
>     sleep 1
>     ps -$naughty || exit
>     printf "Process $NAUGHTY is Still alive\n"
>   done
>
>
> [1] https://www.selenic.com/smem/
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_set_size

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