Using ulimit to limit the amount of memory a script can use
Solution 1:
I was able to get the script to error out with the -v option:
#!/bin/bash
ulimit -v 100000
for i in {1..10000000}
do
x="x"$x
done
The Bash man page says:
-m The maximum resident set size (many systems do not honor
this limit)
Solution 2:
Try to limit virtual memory:
ulimit -v 1024