Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ism.isc.com!ism780c!support From: support@ism780c.isc.com (Support account) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: ULIMIT (was Re: inbound news is suddenly failing) Message-ID: <50316@ism780c.isc.com> Date: 9 Nov 90 17:10:40 GMT References: <1990Nov7.041739.18690@unixland.uucp> <1990Nov07.132936.6397@virtech.uucp> <798@sci34hub.UUCP> Reply-To: support@ism780c.UUCP (Support account) Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA Lines: 18 In article <798@sci34hub.UUCP> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes: >If ANYONE out there knows how to increase the kernal ULIMIT under >ISC 1.0.6, PLEASE either post or email the information. I've dug >thru everything I can find in the/etc/conf/modules directories, and From ancient memory, ULIMIT in that release was set along with other tunables. The path to the file which held the values began with /etc/atconf. You should be able to search in subdirectories under that for a configuration directory. The most simple way to set ULIMIT would be to use "kconfig", configure a kernel, and add tunable parameters, entering the tunable name and a value. Kconfig would update the file with the tunable values, then you should rebuild the kernel. Hope this helps. ...