How can I give a shell script specific amount of memory to run? If I run a java program I can use -Xmx. But what if it is a shell script?
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Why do you think you need to do this? What problem are you trying to solve here?– KensterSep 18, 2014 at 14:32
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You could look into limiting the available memory with ulimit -m XXX (see ulimit -a for current settings and available options). It's not a question of "giving memory to a shell script" but "limiting the maximum memory".
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actually i notice every time i run "top" that it gets a specific amount of memory and wondered if i can tell the shell to allocate more memory for it... Sep 18, 2014 at 16:33