From 3f180a8a15444bf6b683fd9e4aeb728bf33d0ca0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 21:49:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] dot/profile: Set a memory limit so leaky programs don't case
 swapdeath.

---
 dot/profile | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/dot/profile b/dot/profile
index baa996d..fd50a46 100644
--- a/dot/profile
+++ b/dot/profile
@@ -109,6 +109,12 @@ done
 ###--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 ### Some other preliminaries.
 
+## Set a per-process memory limit.  It's much less common for a process to
+## need a lot of memory for a legitimate reason than for it to be a memory
+## leak or some other bug that's going to cause swap death for no good
+## reason.
+ulimit -Sv $(mdw-conf memory-limit 4194304)
+
 ## Establish a temporary directory.
 case ${TMPDIR+t} in
   t) ;;
-- 
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