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

[Martin Pool]

On 21 Jan 2004, Peter Barker <pbarker at barker.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> 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.

ulimit is applied per-process, not for a whole group.

-- 
Martin 
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