Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:29:05 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: David Grochowski <dgrochow@elvis.rowan.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Limiting process memory consumption with rsetlimit and limit. . . Message-ID: <42641891.3090205@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0504170312480.14839-100000@elvis.rowan.edu> References: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0504170312480.14839-100000@elvis.rowan.edu>
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David Grochowski wrote: > I'm currently working on a project where I need to limit the amount of > physical memory a process uses. I've tried the rsetlimit function and the > limit shell command to do so, but I have had no luck (though I was able to > limit the virtual memory and cause it to segfault). Neither seems to have > any effect on the physical memory available to the process. If anyone > could enlighten me on how to limit the physical memory available to a > process, it would be greatly appreciated. setrlimit(RLIMIT_RSS, ...) in C or something like: 8-sec# limit memoryuse 10 9-sec# limit cputime unlimited filesize unlimited datasize 500MB stacksize 64MB coredumpsize 100MB memoryuse 10MB memorylocked unlimited maxproc 256 descriptors 512 sockbufsize unlimited vmemorysize unlimited This is zsh, other shells may have slightly different syntax. In /bin/sh: "ulimit -Sm 10240"? -- -Chuck
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