From: Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 17:13:12 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Limit luatex to 500M of virtual memory.
X-Git-Tag: final-thesis~83
X-Git-Url: https://git.stderr.nl/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a3230eaf8e01ef71d3d53673f215e5b27ba9255f;p=matthijs%2Fmaster-project%2Freport.git

Limit luatex to 500M of virtual memory.

Luatex has the tendency to bring down the entire system when it goes
into some infinite loop.
---

diff --git a/SConstruct b/SConstruct
index a05a298..05bd779 100644
--- a/SConstruct
+++ b/SConstruct
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ if ARGUMENTS.get('once'):
 else:
 	once = ''
 
-contextBuilder = Builder(action='nice texexec --lua $SOURCE%s' % once,
+# Limit to 500MB of virtual memory
+contextBuilder = Builder(action='ulimit -v 512000; nice texexec --lua $SOURCE%s' % once,
                          suffix='.pdf',
                          src_suffix='.tex')
 env.Append(BUILDERS={'Context': contextBuilder})