Limiting process memory usage

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• From: Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:01:23 -0400
• Organization: Clemson University
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Is there an administrative way to prevent a process from using more than
some set amount of memory?  Apparently, ulimit -m is not enforced in
Linux.

Thanks.

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                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs

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