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Capping memory (and, indirectly, swap) use of programs (was Re: [opensuse] Beagle under 10.3 is really eating up my CPU)
  • From: Linda Walsh <suse@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:31:46 -0800
  • Message-id: <476DAC72.2030507@xxxxxxxxx>
Aaron Kulkis wrote:
I just checked the man page for ulimit, and did a search
for the string "swap" and it came up empty... so it looks
like ulimit might not help here....although ulimit -v can set
an upper limit on virtual memory,
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You want to cap virtual memory usage, since
virtual memory size is the total of a process's physical memory and
swap-space use.

L

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