Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!sauron!campbell From: campbell@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM (Mark Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions Subject: ulimit's (was "Re: Another Annoying Microport Inquiry") Message-ID: <926@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM> Date: Sat, 3-Oct-87 10:07:03 EDT Article-I.D.: sauron.926 Posted: Sat Oct 3 10:07:03 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Oct-87 01:29:35 EDT References: <1408@dasys1.UUCP> <6475@brl-smoke.ARPA> <7501@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> Reply-To: campbell@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM (Mark Campbell) Organization: Entry Level Systems Development, NCR Corp., Columbia, SC Lines: 16 Keywords: Microport patch ulimit Xref: mnetor comp.unix.wizards:4649 comp.unix.questions:4375 In article <7501@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: >In article <6475@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) writes: > >|ATTENTION ALL UNIX PORTERS: Fix this!! A 1Mb default ulimit is absolutely >|stupid! Make the initial ulimit "infinite" (it can always be lowered by >|any user, typically in /etc/profile if the system administrator so chooses, >|but only a superuser can raise it). The default "ulimit" should be set using the default number of processes and the default amount of swap space. Careful use of "ulimit" allows one to avoid getting into pathological "out of swap space" conditions. Thus a 1M default "ulimit" value is *not* stupid if the machine in question will default to a fairly large number of processes but a small amount of swap space. -- Mark Campbell {}!ncsu!ncrcae!sauron!campbell