rctl(4freebsd)

rctl4freebsd

Resource limits

Usage

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in the kernel configuration file:

options RACCT options RCTL

Overview

The rctl subsystem provides a flexible resource limits mechanism, controlled by a set of rules that can be added or removed at runtime using the rctl(8) management utility.

Loader tunables

Tunables can be set at the loader(8) prompt, or loader.conf(5).

kern.racct.enable: 1

Enable rctl. This defaults to 1, unless options RACCT_DEFAULT_TO_DISABLED is set in the kernel configuration file.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 10
  2. 11–13

History

The rctl subsystem first appeared in FreeBSD 9.0.

Authors

The rctl subsystem was developed by Edward Tomasz Napierala ⟨[email protected]⟩ under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation.

From freebsd-manpages 12.2-2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.