I have a program (Scilab), which occasionally decides that it's hungry and wants to eat lots and lots of memory. This seems to be dependent on what code I'm running (Scilab includes an interpreted data-analysis language).
Something about the way that Ubuntu is set up lets it use up so much memory that it bogs down my computer to the point where I need to do a hard reboot. I think that it's hitting swap so hard that the normal rationing of processor time to processes is hijacked by memory availability. Once I'm done rattling the appropriate bars at Scilab.org with a bug report, is there a way to launch a program under Linux that limits its memory access, either by total amount or in a way that'll throttle down just that program when it goes to swap? -- Tim Wescott www.wescottdesign.com Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design. Phone: 503.631.7815 Cell: 503.349.8432 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
