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From: lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Changing ulimit on 3b2/600
Message-ID: <351@icus.UUCP>
Date: 20 Apr 88 02:00:17 GMT
References: <1603@lll-lcc.aRpA> <211@anumb.UUCP> <1122@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> <24951@clyde.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano)
Organization: ICUS Computer Group, Islip, NY
Lines: 29
Keywords: 3b2/600, ulimit

In article <24951@clyde.ATT.COM> wtr@moss.UUCP (Bill Rankin) writes:
|>In article <1122@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> cgw@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Gray Watson) writes:
|>
|>>	I'm trying to change the sh's ulimit from 2048 blocks (1 Meg) to
|>>some large value.  Sure I can do it for root but that doesn't help our
|>>big database users.
|>>
|>
|>We have a routine here on our vaxen called ulimit++,
|>which is basically a short C program which checks the 
|>current ulimit, and if it is less than a specific value
|>(8 Meg in our case), it creates a user shell calling ulimit() 
|>to raise the ulimit in the new shell.
|>
...
Under UNIX System V release 3.1, ULIMIT is a tunable parameter and
can be set within /etc/master.d/kernel.  You can raise it for every
UNIX process on the system (permenantly!)...

								-Lenny

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