Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: ULIMIT flame Message-ID: Date: 11 Mar 91 22:33:56 GMT References: <-DT9=.F@xds13.ferranti.com> <1991Mar03.211347.6220@pilikia.pegasus.com> <901@fnx.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Distribution: na Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 17 In article <-DT9=.F@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > Is there anyone out there who has ever had cause to be thankful for ulimits? In article <901@fnx.UUCP> del@fnx.UUCP (Dag Erik Lindberg) writes: > Sure, any time a program runs away filling up the disk. In practice I find this sort of thing usually involves a command being called over and over again from cron. And ULIMIT doesn't help in that case. > A large value, like 20 meg, for ULIMIT ... You actually can depend on having 20 Meg free on all your disks? Here it's "can I borrow a couple of meg for a while?"... -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"