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28.Dd December 22, 2011
29.Dt RCTL 8
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm rctl
33.Nd display and update resource limits database
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Nm
36.Op Fl h
37.Op Fl n
38.Op Ar filter
39.Nm
40.Fl a
41.Op Ar rule
42.Nm
43.Op Fl h
44.Op Fl n
45.Fl l
46.Op Ar filter
47.Nm
48.Fl r
49.Op Ar filter
50.Nm
51.Op Fl h
52.Fl u
53.Op Ar filter
54.Sh DESCRIPTION
55When called without options, the
56.Nm
57command writes currently defined RCTL rules to standard output.
58.Pp
59If a
60.Ar filter
61argument is specified, only rules matching the filter are displayed.
62The options are as follows:
63.Bl -tag -width indent
64.It Fl a Ar rule
65Add
66.Ar rule
67to the RCTL database.
68.It Fl l Ar filter
69Display rules applicable to the process defined by
70.Ar filter .
71.It Fl r Ar filter
72Remove rules matching
73.Ar filter
74from the RCTL database.
75.It Fl u Ar filter
76Display resource usage for a subject (process, user, login class
77or jail) matching the
78.Ar filter .
79.It Fl h
80"Human-readable" output.
81Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte,
82Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte.
83.It Fl n
84Display user IDs numerically rather than converting them to a user name.
85.El
86.Sh RULE SYNTAX
87Syntax for a rule is subject:subject-id:resource:action=amount/per.
88.Pp
89Subject defines the kind of entity the rule applies to.
90It can be either process, user, login class, or jail.
91.Pp
92Subject ID identifies the subject.
93It can be user name, numerical user ID, login class name, or jail name.
94.Pp
95Resource identifies the resource the rule controls.
96.Pp
97Action defines what will happen when a process exceeds the allowed amount.
98.Pp
99Amount defines how much of the resource a process can use before
100the defined action triggers.
101.Pp
102The per field defines what entity the amount gets accounted for.
103For example, rule "loginclass:users:vmem:deny=100M/process" means
104that each process of any user belonging to login class "users" may allocate
105up to 100MB of virtual memory.
106Rule "loginclass:users:vmem:deny=100M/user" would mean that for each
107user belonging to the login class "users", the sum of virtual memory allocated
108by all the processes of that user will not exceed 100MB.
109Rule "loginclass:users:vmem:deny=100M/loginclass" would mean that the sum of
110virtual memory allocated by all processes of all users belonging to that login
111class will not exceed 100MB.
112.Pp
113Valid rule has all those fields specified, except for the per, which defaults
114to the value of subject.
115.Pp
116A filter is a rule for which one of more fields other than per is left empty.
117For example, a filter that matches every rule could be written as ":::=/",
118or, in short, ":".
119A filter that matches all the login classes would be "loginclass:".
120A filter that matches all defined rules for nproc resource would be
121"::nproc".
122.Pp
123.Sh RESOURCES
124.Bl -column -offset 3n "pseudoterminals"
125.It "cputime		CPU time, in seconds"
126.It "datasize		data size, in bytes"
127.It "stacksize		stack size, in bytes"
128.It "coredumpsize	core dump size, in bytes"
129.It "memoryuse		resident set size, in bytes"
130.It "memorylocked	locked memory, in bytes"
131.It "maxproc		number of processes"
132.It "openfiles		file descriptor table size"
133.It "vmemoryuse		address space limit, in bytes"
134.It "pseudoterminals	number of PTYs"
135.It "swapuse		swap usage, in bytes"
136.It "nthr		number of threads"
137.It "msgqqueued		number of queued SysV messages"
138.It "msgqsize		SysV message queue size, in bytes"
139.It "nmsgq		number of SysV message queues"
140.It "nsem		number of SysV semaphores"
141.It "nsemop		number of SysV semaphores modified in a single semop(2) call"
142.It "nshm		number of SysV shared memory segments"
143.It "shmsize		SysV shared memory size, in bytes"
144.It "wallclock		wallclock time, in seconds"
145.El
146.Pp
147.Sh ACTIONS
148.Bl -column -offset 3n "pseudoterminals"
149.It "deny	deny the allocation; not supported for cpu and wallclock"
150.It "log		log a warning to the console"
151.It "devctl	send notification to"
152.Xr devd 8
153.It "sig*	e.g. sigterm; send a signal to the offending process"
154.El
155.Pp
156See
157.Xr signal 3
158for a list of supported signals.
159.Pp
160Not all actions are supported for all resources.
161Attempt to add rule with action not supported by a given resouce will result
162in error.
163.Pp
164Note that limiting RSS may kill the machine due to thrashing.
165.Pp
166.Sh EXIT STATUS
167.Ex -std
168.Sh EXAMPLES
169.Dl rctl -a user:joe:vmemoryuse:deny=1g
170.Pp
171Prevent user "joe" from allocating more than 1GB of virtual memory.
172.Pp
173.Dl rctl -r :
174.Pp
175Remove all RCTL rules.
176.Pp
177.Dl rctl -hu jail:www
178.Pp
179Display resource usage information for jail named "www".
180.Pp
181.Dl rctl -l process:512
182.Pp
183Display all the rules applicable to process with PID 512.
184.Sh SEE ALSO
185.Xr rctl.conf 5 ,
186.Xr jailstat 8 ,
187.Xr userstat 8
188.Sh HISTORY
189The
190.Nm
191command appeared in
192.Fx 9.0.
193.Sh AUTHORS
194.An -nosplit
195The
196.Nm
197command was written by
198.An Edward Tomasz Napierala Aq trasz@FreeBSD.org .
199