Limiting process memory usage

08-15-2008, 10:01 PM

Is there an administrative way to prevent a process from using more than
some set amount of memory? Apparently, ulimit -m is not enforced in
Linux.

Thanks.

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08-15-2008, 10:21 PM

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 05:01:23PM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> Is there an administrative way to prevent a process from using more than
> some set amount of memory? Apparently, ulimit -m is not enforced in
> Linux.

Try ulimit -v instead.

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08-15-2008, 10:23 PM

Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> Is there an administrative way to prevent a process from using more than
> some set amount of memory? Apparently, ulimit -m is not enforced in
> Linux.
>
> Thanks.
>
Would ulimit -v do what you want? If not, you could try a
combination of the -d and -s options.

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