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From: art@pilikia.pegasus.com (Art Neilson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: ULIMIT flame
Message-ID: <1991Mar03.211347.6220@pilikia.pegasus.com>
Date: 3 Mar 91 21:13:47 GMT
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In article <-DT9=.F@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>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?

Not me.  The ulimit only prevents you from creating a file of ulimit size or
greater, it doesn't help at all of someone creates a zillion files each less
than the ulimit and overflows a filesystem.
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