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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Wols Lists wrote:
> On 01/09/2024 15:24, Dale wrote:
>>  From that link, it looks like that is done manually.  In other words,
>> when I start Firefox, I have to add the process to the cgroup by hand.
>> Shouldn't there be a way to do it automatically?  Like add it to the
>> command that runs the program name in the application menu?
>
> That was that bit about cgexec! I start a whole bunch of programs from
> the terminal, including iirc thunderbird and firefox.
>
> Or I start them by clicking on an icon which fires them up for me.
>
> So just read up on cgexec (including where to find it - I've just
> tried and it's not on my system), then edit the .desktop behind your
> icon to start firefox *from* cgexec.
>
> Then you (presuming you don't start it by typing firefox at the
> command line) will just start as normal, the only change being the
> icon starts cgexec and uses that to start firefox rather than starting
> firefox directly.
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>
>


After reading that, my light bulb turned on.  The command cgexec is for
control group execute.  lol  I got to do some searching for that now. 
You gave me a good search term.  ;-)

I wonder tho, in one of the replies, it says to create a directory in
/sys.  Don't those get cleared after a reboot?  I'm almost certain /proc
does but think /sys does too.  If so, how does that survive reboots?  I
may find more info as I search. 

Dale

:-)  :-)