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From: umapy03@cc.ic.ac.uk (Kris Hampel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: limits bug in IRIX 3.3
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Date: 9 Jul 90 20:21:02 GMT
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Hi folks,
  Is this a bug in csh (or whatever controls process limits)?...

Try this:

% limit -h cputime 10
% limit -h cputime
 cputime  0:10
% limit -h cputime 1000
% limit -h cputime
 cputime  16:40

% limit -h cputime 10
% limit -h cputime
 cputime  0:10
% limit -h cputime 1001
 limit: cputime: Can't set hard limit

limit apparently lets you RAISE hard cputime limits provided that
you do not raise them by a factor greater than 100 in one go...
from csh(1) "Only the super-user may raise the hard limits..."

What we have is IRIX 3.3 running on a 4 processor 4/240s

cheers, Kris.


Kris Hampel,	Solid State Theory Group, Physics, Imperial College.
		=====> kris@sst.ph.ic.ac.uk <=====