[wplug] memory cap on programs?

[John Harrold]

i have a friend who's installed the latest mozilla happiness on redhat via
the dag rpm repository: 

http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/

quite frequently, netscape or mozilla goes crazy and starts sucking up all
the ram. the hard drive grinds away and the system becomes unresponsive. i
was wondering if it was possible to put a memory cap on a program. that way
it could be killed automatically if it started getting greedy with
resources.


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