Re: Controling dynamic memory size

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 19 March 2012 21:58, Rychlik, Marek R - (rychlik)
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Is there a way to impose a limit on the size of the dynamic memory allocated 
> by octave?

The jailing should be done at the OS level, not by Octave. Set
appropriate ulimits, e.g.

    https://lopsa.org/node/1755

There are many other things you want to restrict, such as fork bombs
and infinite loops. You should also run Octave in a jail, virtual
machine, or a chroot, without write permissions. These should all be
done at the OS level.

Also, it's tempting to try to disable certain Octave commands, but
this is a losing battle, because there are many ways to run
destructive Octave commands.

HTH,
- Jordi G. H.