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Re: Limit memory consumption of an ad hoc process



Victor Sudakov wrote:
> 
> FreeBSD has a simple way to run some ad-hoc program with memory limits:
> 
> $ limits -m 2G ./mytest
>   memoryuse             2097152 kB
>   vmemoryuse           infinity kB
> $ limits -m 1G ./mytest
>   memoryuse             1048576 kB
>   vmemoryuse           infinity kB
> 
> How do I do the same in Linux (without root permissions)?

The short answer is /usr/bin/prlimit, it's the direct equivalent of
FreeBSD's /usr/bin/limits wrapper.

Thanks to all who replied especially Greg Wooledge!


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Victor Sudakov VAS4-RIPE
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