Re: [sage-devel] process memory caps in OSX

2011-07-02 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > I've been doing some experiments with the python resource module and the > setrlimit command to set resource limits on processes.  I've found something > very interesting: it seems that on OSX (10.6.8), there is no way to have a > hard cap on th

[sage-devel] process memory caps in OSX

2011-07-02 Thread Jason Grout
I've been doing some experiments with the python resource module and the setrlimit command to set resource limits on processes. I've found something very interesting: it seems that on OSX (10.6.8), there is no way to have a hard cap on the amount of memory a process uses, at least no way that