limiting memory use per application

[Marius Andreiana <mandreiana rdslink ro>]

Hi

Can I limit memory use per application? I'm having troubles with some
applications ( anjuta, maybe tora too ) which seem to leak memory and
after a few hours of use the hard drive will have continuous activity
because of swapping. ( even had to cold-reboot ) 

I've limited now in 
/etc/security/limits.conf
the memory to 256mb like this
marius		hard	rss		262144
marius		hard	stack		262144

What does 'data - max data size' item do?
If possible, I'd like to limit memory per application to 64mb.

Thanks,
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Marius Andreiana
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