> debuggers, other monitoring tools... IMO it's not
> worth to spend so much
> time if you can add more swap :) 

Hello, adding swap does not help me. If I do that the
process will effectively stop running. What happens is
that the process is always in biowait state utilizing
only about one per cent of cpu time. What I'm looking
for is a way allocate maximum memory for one process.

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