[CentOS] Limit RAM used by a perl script

[Lucian@lastdot.org]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Sean Carolan<scarolan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a perl script which runs from a cron job.  How would you limit
> the amount of RAM that this script is allowed to consume?  Is there a
> ulimit setting that will accomplish this?  If so does ulimit have to
> be run each time the script is run, or is there a way to set it
> permanently?
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If you run it as a regular user, then maybe you can check out
/etc/security/limits.conf