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Re: browsers have become memory hogs



On Friday 11 April 2008 16:10:04 Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Mumia W.. wrote:
> Is there any way, instead of restricting a resource, to have a command
> executed when a setpoint for a given resource is reached?  Say, when FF
> uses 200M of virtual memory, or over 30% of CPU, a job runs which pops
> up a warning message.  That way you know that a problem exists and can
> handle it BEFORE it gets to the point where the system is locking up.
>
> --
> Marc Shapiro
> mshapiro_42@yahoo.com


Must be. In KDE there is a applet called Run away process catcher. It can be 
configured to stop a process eating x% of cpu usage. Must be something else, 
like a command line to do the job, with more parameters to adjust to what you 
want. Now, this is going to use some CPU time , too!!
Thierry


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