[Nottingham] Limiting process physical memory - how?

[Martin]

Folks,

A Geekie one...

I've a humongous process that is gobbling up all physical memory to
bring this machine to a crawl. There's more than enough virtual memory
for it but:


How do I limit how much physical memory it grabs so as not to freeze out
everything else?

How can I limit the rate of memory swap so that the HDD isn't thrashed
to a crawl?


(I've done a "kill -s STOP pid" for the moment to temporarily halt it.
All is non-treacle again but how to stop it going to treacle again?)

Ideas?

Cheers,
Martin


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