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    cgroups are the Right Way Forward for the future. Won't work in older distributions, but from basically now onward, it's the way forward. Look into libcgroup sourceforge.net/projects/libcg for utilities to control them. Commented Nov 26, 2010 at 15:09
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    The package is named libcgroup-tools on Fedora 17. Commented Jul 13, 2012 at 3:21
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    Or even better systemd-run which implicitly uses cgroups, like in systemd-run --scope -p MemoryLimit=1G firefox. Commented Aug 17, 2019 at 18:51