On RHEL systems you can use the 'cgred' service to classify processes based on the user running it or the command itself. For example, say you have user X who a

On RHEL systems you can use the 'cgred' service to classify processes based on the user running it or the command itself. For example, say you have user X who always logs in and runs rsync commands and saturates the link. You can automatically classify this user or rsync process into a cgroup that throttles the network IP (or in your use case, memory) -- problem solved. There is some great documentation @ https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/Resource_Management_Guide/index.html#The_cgred_Service https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_E...