My original post was a simple program which used some 7 MB of RAM. Having
a user run multiple copies of this can exhaust the total RAM and VM and
cause a crash.
The responses I got back (if I understand them correctly) give two options.
1. Control the total RAM or VM in a given shell or process.
2. Control the number of processes.
Is it impractical to have the vm manager check the total vm available when
a call is made to swap and kill the process if it will request too
much swap?
TIA,
-sen