ansible-role-cgroups-limits

Configure a memory cgroup limit for users in a group

This role was written to limit the amount of ram memory that a single user can allocate in a login node in an HPC cluster to avoid a single user consuming all the ram in the login node an hanging the machine.

Role Variables

cgroup_memory_limit: '10G'

cgroup_to_whom_the_limit_applies: '@users'

Dependencies

none

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: ansible-role-cgroups-limits, cgroup_memory_limit: "15G" }

Requirements

None

License

GPLv3

Author Information

Pablo Escobar Lopez