[clug] nice.... but for memory?

[Peter Barker]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Andrew wrote:

>          Is it possible to limit the amount of memory a program (and its
> child processes) are allowed to use? (is there a wrapper that can be used?)

ulimit will allow you set various process limits.

But note that this is not very similar to "nice"; if something hits the
limit, it is almost certainly toast, rather than just being slowed-down.

>          Andrew.

Yours,
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