Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 25 August 2024 16:20:19 BST Dale wrote: >> Walter Dnes wrote: >>> On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 07:42:05PM -0500, Dale wrote >>> >>>> I still use openrc. I'll look around and see what I can find. Now I >>>> know what to look for. Thing is, not sure I use cgroups either, unless >>>> it is on by default. o_O >>>> >>> The bottom half of file /etc/rc.conf is devoted to cgroups settings. >>> >>> Look for the line... >>> # LINUX CGROUPS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT >> I have searched for info on this. I did find the settings in rc.conf. >> I see a lot of discussion about running services, like cups, mysql and >> such, and controlling them. What I don't see is how to set up a regular >> program like Firefox or any other program that a user runs directly. I >> suspect it can be done but I can't find a howto that shows how to do it. >> >> I'll keep digging but if anyone has a link they have ran up on before >> and would like to share, it would be nice. It seems what I want to do >> is not very common. Thing is, Firefox sometimes goes nuts and when it >> does, it is determined to crash my system if I don't catch it. Even if >> I had the full 128GBs, it would just take longer to consume it as well. >> The best way I see to deal with this, limit its access to memory. It >> seems there is a tool to do this, now to figure out how to use it. >> >> Thanks to all for the help. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) > I have not dived into cgroups in any big way. I would think setting up a > dekstop application with many complicated & complex userspace dependencies is > not a simple task. > > Perhaps a way to approach this is by launching firefox as a different user > and > setting a memory limit for that user.
I did a lot of searching and almost all of it relates to using cgroups for services, like mysql or something. I haven't found anything that explains how to do it for a program started by a user. It may be doable but I've yet to find it. It's rare so I may just have to close Firefox and such before I nap or leave for a while. Avoid the problem that way. Dale :-) :-)
