How Can I Limit the Amount of RAM a Mac OS Application Can Use?

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Published on 2010-03-10T22:32:18Z Indexed on 2010/03/11 4:41 UTC
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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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