On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Robert Bradshaw
<rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2010, at 5:42 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I received an email asking the following question:
>>
>>> Is there any way of stopping a Sage program from eating up all available
>>> system memory?  A program I'm running just keeps using up more and more
>>> memory until my computer becomes almost unusable.
>
> From the command line, control-C (and, that failing, control-Z, kill %1).
> From the notebook, do "restart." This should be in the FAQ.
>

Also, you should learn about the "ulimit" command.

William

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