Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, Seamonkey to if I can, and memory limits.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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

:-)  :-)