@nahratzah If your using bash then you could try to limit the amount of virtual memory available using `ulimit -v`. For example setting `ulimit -v 1024` makes htop crush on startup while at 5KB `ulimit -v 5120` it runs fine.

Something else you could try: https://jlebar.com/2011/6/15/Limiting_the_amount_of_RAM_a_program_can_use.html