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.
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