Is there a way to limit user memory usage?

[daniel333]

All,

I have a user who's job used 6+gigs of ram. Is there a way for me to cap their memory usage? If so how does that "appear" to the user when they go over ram? Some sort of "exceeding memory error" I woudl guess?

[somesoni2]

Have a look at this
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Limitsconf?ac=partner_smt#Memory_tracker