Setting Memory Limit

[Robert Brockway]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Randy Jonasz wrote:

> Hey Eeveryone,
>
> I was wondering if there is a way to limit the amount of ram a process
> can use.  I tried ulimit in bash but didn't find the limit set with
> ulimit -m 1 was being honoured.

Hi Randy.  I've used ulimit -m many times and observed it working.  Could 
you give an example where you see the memory limit violated?

What you are setting there is a 1k memory limit for the process (and each 
of its children).  Perhaps libc is sanely ignoring values that are 
unrealistically small.

Cheers,

Rob

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