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From: jmb@patton.SGI.COM (Jim Barton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: uport problems with large files?
Message-ID: <15393@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 3 Jun 88 15:39:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: sgi.15393
References: <1878@netmbx.UUCP>
Sender: daemon@sgi.SGI.COM
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc, Mountain View, CA
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Summary: Use 'ulimit'

In article <1878@netmbx.UUCP>, felix@netmbx.UUCP (Felix Gaehtgens) writes:
> I've had problems when trying to write a file larger than 1.2 Mb to /usr
> with uport version 2.3. there was enough space, but he didn't seem to like
> files bigger than 1228800 bytes. anybody else had this problems? any solu-
> tions? or am i just making a stupid mistake?
> 
> so long,
> 	felix
> 
> {backbone}!pyramid!tub!tmpmbx!netmbx!felix
> ...unido!tub!tmpmbx!netmbx!felix


You >are< making a silly mistake.  The ulimit value for file size
( see intro(2), ulimit(1) ) is limited on the Microport to 1.2Mb so you
can write a high-density floppy.  To change, become super-user and
raise it: ( $ ulimit 50000 ).  The number is in blocks (512 bytes each).
I believe this is documented somewhere in the "well organized" microport
documentation.

-- Jim Barton
Silicon Graphics Computing Systems    "UNIX: Live Free Or Die!"
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