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How Can I Limit the Amount of RAM a Mac OS Application Can Use?
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Mar 15, 20269005 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I installed dropbox and it has terrible memory management. It often uses 3GB out of my 4GB of RAM. Is there any way to limit the app memory usage? I would like to never allow more than 250 MB of RAM.
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You can try using the shell builtin to limit the resources, though you then have to launch Dropbox from the shell that you ran in, instead of from the Finder or something. You probably want or .
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