How to determine the process memory limit in Linux?

Question

I have been scouring the internet to find out how much memory a java process can take on a linux (red-hat) machine. ( I am not talking about heap; rather, the entire amount

Answer 1

Here's a useful read: Limiting time and memory consumption of a program in Linux, which lead to the timeout tool, which lets you cage a process (and it's forks) by time or memory consumption.