Setting memory consumption limits with Upstart

Question

I\'ve recently become quite fond of Upstart. Previously I\'ve been using God, Monit and Bluepill but I don\'t really like these solutions so I\'m giving Upstart a try.

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Answer 1

Appending this to the end of myapp-web-*.conf will cause any allocation calls trying to allocate more than 150mb of memory to return ENOMEM:

limit rss 157286400 157286400

The process might crash at this point, or it might not. That's up to the process!

Here's a test for this in the Upstart Source.