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How to set soft or hard limit for the number of user's processes “nproc”?
APPLIES TO:
Oracle Linux Cloud Service - Version Oracle Linux 6.0 and later
Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 6.0 and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later
Linux x86-64
GOAL:
This note provides a guideline for Linux system administrators to control and limit the number of processes each user can run on a linux system.
SOLUTION:
To set the nproc soft and hard values, you can edit either the /etc/security/limits.conf file or files within the /etc/security/limits.d/ directory:
1- Edit the /etc/security/limits.conf file to set nproc soft and hard values:
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