Hi -but limiting the stacksize would make the affected program (here: phaser) crash when it wants more memory, right?
Limiting ressources probably makes a lot of sense on a server (where you don't want a single user to hog the system) but not on a workstation.
If, on a workstation, a calculation takes so much memory that it needs to swap, I would expect email and web browsing to become very slow. In that case you need to buy more memory. I use "xosview" to see if my workstation is happy (memory-wise).
best, Kay Harry Powell wrote:
*** For details on how to be removed from this list visit the *** *** CCP4 home page http://www.ccp4.ac.uk *** Hi bash (etc) have "ulimit" csh/tcsh have "limit" (& "unlimit" if you want to remove limits...). man or info pages on these should give you hints as to how to proceed.Many shells have a command 'ulimit', by which you can limit the resources a process may use. With ksh, for example, you would say ulimit -m 256000 to restrict the memory of any process to 256000 kB. I suppose with bash it is very similar. I do not know about csh, though. Tim - -- Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Eleanor Dodson wrote:How can I stop PHASER grabbing ALL the memory and destroying my machine!! Eleanor-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFSSq3UxlJ7aRr7hoRAjVGAKDgXewyaSx+eM36Xt/2jVb+R9bpwwCg29Bg +QKnpUaVNNRWO3aoJJ/rp8s= =/7Lk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Harry
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