Memory allocation

[zoby]

Hello everybody,

Is there someone who knows how allocate some quantity of memory for each application or programm ?

Exemple :

script.sh is a script running each day at 12:00 PM. when it runs, I would like it takes all the free memory available to run faster.

Thanks in advance

Zoby

 

[jad]

it will, if it can ...

however as far as a Solaris machine is concerned free memory can be anywhere on the system, i.e. disk or physical memory

if your program requires memory it will be given it, as far as solaris can go within it's resources, but it might have to push something else from physical memory into the swap space to do this, and then you're limited to swap size, and disk-io to work with memory.

i have a program that tars up about 90Mb+30Mb+25Mb+30Mb (roughly) every lunch time and at the end of the day (data from an application that if it crashes causes us a lot of grief from certain parties) i only have 128Mb ram (at least until they eventually give in and let me have a little more money) and so when it tars up the files everything in memory gets swapped to disk (unless the application is running quite heavily) even when i 'nice' it.

needless to say, when i come back from lunch (it's not really worth working on the machine when it does this, even with scsi disks) i have to wait a good few seconds for the oracle database to drag itself back from disk ...

the moral of this story ... it's very hard to _STOP_ applicationsfrom taking all the free memory

 

[zoby]

Yes I understand. But cannot I tell to Solaris, this program will take 64 Mo of memory or more ?