Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>
> Seriously, is there a way to stop bulk copies from eternally flushing my
> $Desktop's cached pages down the drain minute after blessful minute,
> hour after gratitude filled hour?
softlimit is packaged in daemontools.
NAME
softlimit - runs another program with new resource
limits.
SYNOPSIS
softlimit [ opts ] child
DESCRIPTION
opts is a series of getopt-style options. child consists
of one or more arguments.
softlimit sets soft resource limits as specified by opts.
It then runs child.
OPTIONS
In each of the following opts, n may be =,
indicating that the soft limit should be set equal to the hard
limit.
opts controlling memory use:
-m n Same as -d n -s n -l n -a n.
-d n Limit the data segment per process to n bytes.
-s n Limit the stack segment per process to n bytes.
-l n Limit the locked physical pages per process to n
bytes. This option has no effect on some operating
systems.
-a n Limit the total of all segments per process to
n bytes. This option has no effect on some operating
systems.
.... and so on for other resources to limit.
-dsr-
