While trying to limit the virtual memory used by a process, using

import resource
MAX_VIRTUAL_MEMORY = 1 * 1024 * 1024
resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_VMEM, (MAX_VIRTUAL_MEMORY, MAX_VIRTUAL_MEMORY))

The following error occurred:

AttributeError: module 'resource' has no attribute 'RLIMIT_VMEM'

This is on Ubuntu 16.04 running inside WSL. on Python 3.8.2.

The docs for resource module state:

This module does not attempt to mask platform differences — symbols not defined for a platform will not be available from this module on that platform.

Therefore I think this can be closed.

Also note that according to https://edwards.sdsu.edu/research/memory-and-core-usage-on-sge/,

Linux systems use RLIMIT_AS instead of RLMIMIT_VMEM.

My system (MacOS), also has RLIMIT_AS defined but not RLIMIT_VMEM.

According to https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getrlimit.2.html there is no RLIMIT_VMEM on linux, RLIMIT_AS is the closest equivalent.