It was an honest mistake! Really! Anyone could have done it.
Of course, this machine here isn't the powerhouse saturn is... so the limits are correspondingly lower. duh!
2GB per process on the 64bit AMD machine with oodles of ram. Makes sense.
Will be a while until I can really test this, since saturn is currently down, stress testing my backup/restore system. The root drive has been in there a while, guess it's only natural that it would begin slowly fading... Essentially, the last 'stress' I did... the huge swap file usage, hard drive pounding quaking terror I seemed to have put it though earlier this evening has caused the root drive to begin to give up. SMART began screaming at me during restart, sda is failing! sda is failing! the sky is falling! run for your life!
So a little while later, the system is restoring the backup onto a partition on another drive, rebuild grub and it should be back up within the hour or so. A pain, but that's what good backups are for. Right? And since I use volume labels, nothing needs to be changed since I formatted the new partition with the label 'root' again. taadaaa! (kinda slick that!)
Of course, I have this machine to play with while saturn's restoring, the webserver and email is handled on another machine... waaay too many computers in this apartment. {Grin}. Keeps me off the streets.