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Date:      Mon, 30 Mar 1998 22:28:53 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
To:        Studded@san.rr.com (Studded)
Cc:        andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to limit the physical RAM usage of a process?
Message-ID:  <199803302028.WAA18355@intern>
In-Reply-To: <351FFB1D.E08DF2A8@san.rr.com> from Studded at "Mar 30, 98 12:05:49 pm"

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> Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I want to limit the usage of physical RAM to 20MB for a specific process.
> > I tried a little with
> > 
> >   limits -m 20M /path/to/process
> > 
> > but it still shows up in ps with 50M in the RSS field.
> 
> 	You could set up a specific user for that process and use
> /etc/login.conf to control its resources. Check out man login.conf for
> more info.

But doesn't this have the same effect as limits?

	-Andre

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