linux java 进程内存,如何确定Linux中的进程内存限制？

I have been scouring the internet to find out how much memory a java process can take on a linux (red-hat) machine. ( I am not talking about heap; rather, the entire amount of memory taken up by the java Process)

I don't have permission to execute anything on that machine. So I can't simply execute a program that consumes memory until Out-Of-Memory condition.

However, I do have permission to check config files, etc. ( for example: I tried to execute cat /proc/meminfo, but I can't understand it; it appears that none of its results stand for the parameter I want to know about).

I have tried out a java program on a separate red hat machine - on which I do have permission to execute programs - and I was able to see java program grow up to around 3GB.

Is there some way I can find out how much memory a process can get ?

解决方案

ulimit is your friend. Java processes are no different than any others. But if you can't even run ulimit -a, it's hard to answer your question.