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How to constrain the resources an application can use on a linux web server
This is the situation:
I have a PHP/MySQL web application that does some PDF processing and thumbnail creation. This is done by using some 3rd party command line software on the server. Both kinds of ...
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What do top's %MEM and VSZ mean?
I'm working on an embedded Linux system (128MB RAM) without any swap partition. Below is its top output:
Mem: 37824K used, 88564K free, 0K shrd, 0K buff, 23468K cached
CPU: 0% usr 0% sys 0% nic ...
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Where can I find the historical source code of the Linux sources
I want to do research on the evolution of Linux.
Therefore it would be nice if I could download the sources of Linux at several moments in time (from 1991 till now).
Is there a site where one can ...
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Is there a way to limit overall CPU consumption
My laptop (an HP with an i3 chip) overheats like crazy every time I run a resource heavy process (like a large compilation, extracting large tarballs or ... playing Flash).
I am currently looking ...
