Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: ULIMIT flame
Message-ID: <-DT9=.F@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 1 Mar 91 17:41:07 GMT
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Distribution: na
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
Lines: 13

Argh!!!!

We run a network containing a wide variety of UNIX systems, with perpetually
overflowing disks. If anyone is ever likely to be helped by ulimits, it'd
be us. I have yet to discover a single case where ulimit has saved us from
running out of disk space... on the contrary, it's been a perpetual pain.
We used to maintain "rational" ulimits, but now just max them out whenever
we run into one that's left over from the old days, or on a new system.

Is there anyone out there who has ever had cause to be thankful for ulimits?
-- 
Peter da Silva.  `-_-'  peter@ferranti.com
+1 713 274 5180.  'U`  "Have you hugged your wolf today?"