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Phlogiston
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 Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:10 pm Post subject: Possibility to set a maximum memory limit for applications? |
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Hi
Today I had the problem that firefox was eating up all my memory, so my system started swapping and everything started to lag and I had to hard reset. (The same thing happened before with other apps, wine for example)
So I was wondering if its possible to set a global memory limit for all applications. This would my sense I think, because usually when an application/process starts using more than 80% of the physical ram it has a memory leak or another grave problem.
Thanks for any hints.
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Mike Hunt
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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There is /etc/security/limits.conf
but it would probably be a better idea to find out what is causing those problems and fix them
please post your emerge --info |
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Phlogiston
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| Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:51 am Post subject: |
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| Mike Hunt wrote: | There is /etc/security/limits.conf
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Yes I looked into that file but didn't find the right option. Would it be memlock or just data?
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data
maximum data size (KB)
memlock
maximum locked-in-memory address space (KB)
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but it would probably be a better idea to find out what is causing those problems and fix them
please post your emerge --info
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The last time it happened it was not on a gentoo machine. However the wine issue was on my gentoo laptop. But if its caused by proprietary code we can't fix much, so I still think its a rather sane idea to set those limits.
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