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From: schiebel@cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Darrell Schiebel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: "MAXUMEM", and process limits
Keywords: limit kconfig
Message-ID: <1513@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>
Date: 9 May 91 23:51:13 GMT
Organization: WVU Statistics and Computer Science
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	I am tring to set the memory limit for processes something similar
	to the "C-shell" "limit datasize <whatever>". I tried changing
	the kernal parameters via "kconfig MAXUMEM = <whatever>. Unfortuately
	when I did this the system got very flaky, infact it didn't boot
	up at all and I had to restore "/unix" from a backup.

	Is it possible to set the memory limit for JUST the current process
	and its decendants??????


						Many Thanks,
						Darrell Schiebel
						(schiebel@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu)
						(drs@baks.bell-atl.com)