How to limit resources?

[martin-picard-parloa]

I tried hive mode and it quickly ate up all my CPU and memory, I had to restart my computer haha. What options do I have to limit the resources? I have an M1 Pro 16gb for reference

[Sudz]

Hi @martin-picard-parloa! Great question about resource management in hive mode. Here are several strategies you can use to limit resources:

1. Docker Resource Limits (Recommended)
If you're running claude-flow with Docker, you can set resource limits in your docker-compose.yml:

services:
  claude-flow:
    deploy:
      resources:
        limits:
          cpus: '2.0'
          memory: 4G
        reservations:
          cpus: '1.0'
          memory: 2G

2. Environment Variables
Check if claude-flow supports environment variables like:

• MAX_WORKERS or CONCURRENCY_LIMIT - Limit concurrent operations
• MEMORY_LIMIT - Set memory constraints

3. System-Level Resource Limits
On macOS, you can use ulimit to set limits:

ulimit -v 4000000  # Limit virtual memory to ~4GB
ulimit -u 50       # Limit number of processes

4. Hive Mode Configuration
Try reducing the hive agent count or parallelism settings in your configuration file before starting hive mode.

5. Monitoring
Use Activity Monitor on macOS to watch resource usage and kill the process (pkill -f claude-flow) before it overwhelms your system.

For M1 Pro with 16GB, I'd recommend starting with max 2-4 concurrent workers and 4GB memory limit. Would you like help with any specific implementation?