On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Steve T. wrote:
> | On further reflection, what I really needed to know is this:
> | is there a way to limit the amount of memory that a single
> | (possibly misbehaved) program is allowed to gobble up?
> | I know about disk quotas, is there something similar for memory?
> |
> | Thanks,
> | Irv
>
> ulimit is your friend. It should be documented in your shell's manpage
> (e.g. "man bash"). "ulimit -s" can be used to limit the stack size of your
> process and its subprocesses.
Many thanks!
Irv
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