On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 08:00:38AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > 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.
I haven't been following this thread because I don't know anything about the kernel's "swappiness" settings. But I'm a little bit confused about the intent here -- setting a resource limit on memory is just going to make the program crash with an "out of memory" error when it tries to exceed the limit. It's not going to discipline a memory hog program into using different algorithms.
