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

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

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On Sunday, 25 August 2024 16:20:19 BST Dale wrote:
> 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
> 
> :-)  :-) 

I have not dived into cgroups in any big way.  I would think setting up a 
dekstop application with many complicated & complex userspace dependencies is 
not a simple task.

Perhaps a way to approach this is by launching firefox as a different user and 
setting a memory limit for that user.

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