How to increase the memory limit of a process?

Question

There is a way to clear the memory used by a process in Ubuntu?

Answer 1

You can use the command

ulimit -v unlimited

before calling the process. Also see if there are any restrictions in the file /etc/security/Limits.conf . This will clear the use of virtual memory. Apparently there is no way to set a restriction for resident memory if you are not writing the program’s own code.

Source: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/32368/how-to-limit-application-memory-usage