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Limit memory usage of R processes on POSIX systems | Obsolete, use this instead:

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Use unix::rlimit_as() instead.


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Limit R memory on POSIX systems (Linux, ~~OS X~~, ...).

Installation

devtools::install_github("krlmlr/ulimit")

Usage

Execute the following to limit the memory available to R to 2000 MiB:

ulimit::memory_limit(2000)

See also the package documentation and the small vignette.

Related

RAppArmor has the rlimit_as() function and much, much more.