[gentoo-user] Firefox, Seamonkey to if I can, and memory limits.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Howdy,

A video on my TV the other day started spitting and stuttering.  At
first, I thought the video was bad.  I was going to make a note to
replace it then skip to the next video.  Then I realized that one of my
Firefox profiles went memory hungry and was using all of my 64GBs of
ram.  I don't have swap yet.  I used the SysRq key and 'f' to kill the
memory hungry thing. Things went back to normal, mostly.  What I'd like
to know, is there a way to limit how much a process like Firefox,
Seamonkey too, to a certain amount of memory?  When it runs out, it
either kills itself or stops working.  I'd like a way to limit this
because while rare, Firefox does on occasion go nuts with memory usages. 

Before someone mentions a bad website, even if it is, I still want to
limit the memory usage.  I have other profiles with no common website
between them do the same thing.  Be it Firefox itself or some website,
I'd still like to limit the damage to the offender, not my entire
system.  I looked to see if I could find a add-on but found nothing. 
I'm hoping there is maybe a command line way that I've never heard of
before.

Any ideas on how to limit Firefox memory usage?  Wouldn't mind if I
could use it for other programs too. 

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)