Capping memory (and, indirectly, swap) use of programs (was Re: [opensuse] Beagle under 10.3 is really eating up my CPU)

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,

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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org