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From: tim@comcon.UUCP (Tim Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Ulimit revisited..... in ISC 1.0.6
Summary: ULIMIT
Keywords: ULIMIT MAXFSIZ
Message-ID: <463@comcon.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 90 16:20:08 GMT
References: <742@sci34hub.UUCP> <1990Jul30.025636.28165@sclcig.uucp>
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In article <1990Jul30.025636.28165@sclcig.uucp>, gsn@sclcig.uucp (Georg Nikodym) writes:
> In article <742@sci34hub.UUCP> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
> >[stuff deleted...]
> >We have someone in another department trying to use large databases
> >under 1.0.6 (I'm not sure which db program they're using). They are
> >hitting the upper limit for normal users, which defaults to 8MB.
> Yup.
 [deleted...]

> On some (older?) versions of UNIX there is an /etc/master file which
> contains kernel config stuff, on others that info is contained somewhere
> in the /etc/conf tree.  In my (limited?  attempt at modesty :-) experience
> the parameter that you need to change is called MAXFSIZ, not ULIMIT.
> If your version of UNIX has the /etc/default directory structure then you'll
> also have to change the line "ULIMIT=some_value" line in /etc/default/login.

In ISC 106-2.2 it is called ULIMIT.  You must extend it's limits in
/etc/conf/cf.d/mtune then you can up it in stune in the same
directory.
Make a new kernel.

Tim Brown
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