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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: Denis Shcherbakov <deniss@×××××××××.EDU>, Gentoo Developers <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] limiting memory and mathematica
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 21:40:17
Message-Id: 20040309213824.GB22552@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] limiting memory and mathematica by Denis Shcherbakov
1 On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 03:34:23PM -0500, Denis Shcherbakov wrote:
2 > My question is what can I do about this... Is there a way to cap the
3 > amount of memory accessible to Mathematica? Is it possible to put a quota
4 > on the memory usage by a user running Mathematica? Is there ANYTHING you
5 > can think of that might help me keep Mathematica in a cage? I mean, I am
6 > ok with it using 500MB of my RAM, but I can't let it go for the whole 2GB!
7 'help ulimit', or even better 'softlimit' from sys-apps/daemontools.
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