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

2007-12-23 Thread Aaron Kulkis 

Linda Walsh wrote:

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 herealthough 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.



As Carlos noted...that causes beagle to crash.


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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)

2007-12-22 Thread Linda Walsh 

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 herealthough 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

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