Controlling Rails Process SizeEric Hodel | Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:44:00 GMT Posted in Rails, Ruby Now that Ruby 1.8.5 is out setting process limits is easier than ever before! We used to use a small shell script run from cron to kill processes that got too big for their britches. Unfortunately this was difficult to do both well and simply (we chose simply). Now, in Ruby 1.8.5, we have Process::setrlimit: $ ri Process::setrlimit
