Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!prism!scott From: scott@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Holt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: huge memory allocation Message-ID: <23999@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 10 Mar 91 19:30:28 GMT References: <18016@milton.u.washington.edu> <3628@d75.UUCP> <1991Mar10.180433.24685@nrcnet0.nrc.ca> Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 17 In article <1991Mar10.180433.24685@nrcnet0.nrc.ca> ng@cfd.di.nrc.ca writes: > >According to what I've been told by the IBM tech hot line (from Toronto, >Canada), all those User Characteristics (quotas) of SMIT are for future >expansion only; none of them are currently enforced. I wish they are wrong. Well, I don't know if setting them in the limits file does any good (I have not tried), but adjusting memory limits with the ulimit command does have an effect (ulimit -d). I have not tried many of the other limits, but the only one I know is not enforced is CPU time. - Scott -- This is my signature. There are many like it, but this one is mine. Scott Holt Internet: scott@prism.gatech.edu Georgia Tech UUCP: ..!gatech!prism!scott Office of Information Technology, Technical Services