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From: Ward Poelmans <ward.poelmans@×××××××.be>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] limiting memory and mathematica
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:36:39
Message-Id: 404F0BD5.5000900@pandora.be
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] limiting memory and mathematica by Denis Shcherbakov
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4 Denis Shcherbakov wrote:
5 | In /etc/limits, which option sets the max memory use? Is it max stack
6 | size, or max address space? I have no idea which option I should choose -
7 | I am just a layman :)
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9 I have never used /etc/limits before but i think that if you limit the
10 max address space and the max stack size, it should do the trick.
11 But the daemontools package like Robin said will be beter for the job.
12 Just run: softlimit -m 1024 Mathematica to limit the memory usage to
13 1 KB.
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15 Ward.
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