Limiting process memory usage

[Dave Mitchell]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 05:01:23PM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> Is there an administrative way to prevent a process from using more than
> some set amount of memory?  Apparently, ulimit -m is not enforced in
> Linux.

Try ulimit -v instead.

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