Shridhar Daithankar spewed into the ether: > I have a small problem. I want to restrict maximum memory allocated > to a program. >I don't want any damn program to eat as much memory Set ulimit, if you are using bash. Read the bash man page for details. > Is there any other way of creating child processes? Hmmm, not on Unix, AFAIK. But memory leaks might cause large amounts of memory to be lost. Check for the mallocs and frees in the program source too. Devdas Bhagat ------------------------------------------------------------ Nettaxi MP3 Player, Burner, Ripper - NEW Version 2.0!!! DOWNLOAD IT FREE! (5MBs) MP3 DOWNLOAD: http://www.nettaxi.com/mp3/version_2/ntxy_MP3_setup.exe ---------------------------------------------- An alpha version of a web based tool to manage your subscription with this mailing list is at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr
