Today, Karl J. Runge gleaned this insight:
>
> Related,
>
> I've always wondered how I could limit the amount of Memory (or VM)
> for a process. E.g. give netscape 80MB max.
>
It can't be done; at least not yet. But according to the VM gurus on
LKML, per-process limits of that type are coming to a kernel near you (I
think they're adding it starting with 2.5). They were just talking about
this exact problem about a week ago.
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