Capping memory (and, indirectly, swap) use of programs (was Re: [opensuse] Beagle under 10.3 is really eating up my CPU)

[Linda Walsh]

Aaron Kulkis wrote:

I just checked the man page for ulimit, and did a search
for the string "swap" and it came up empty... so it looks
like ulimit might not help here....although ulimit -v can set

an upper limit on virtual memory,

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        You want to cap virtual memory usage, since
virtual memory size is the total of a process's physical memory and
swap-space use.

L

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