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

[Peter Barker]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Martin Pool 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 is applied per-process, not for a whole group.

Good as a clarification, but I assumed he meant "each individual process"
rather than limitting the sum of the memory usages of the group :)

I'm just glad nobody's brought up the matter of the "stupid comma" I put
in my reply :)

> Martin

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