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Subject: Re: how to set resource limits
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Morsal Rodbay <morsal@swipnet.se> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 06:16:45AM -0500, parv wrote:
> > last time i set the limits in /etc/login.conf, i couldn't start the
> > X server (not enough memory allocation).  i don't want to repeat my
> > previous mistake as to start X again it involved 2-3 reboots.
> > 
> > a few minutes ago, netscape 4.79 swelled to about >500M in both SIZE
> > and RES as indicated by top(1) (everything slowed, had to kill it).
> > 
> > i had read the man pages for limits, my shell (bash), and
> > login.conf.  in login.conf, everything is unlimited; current limits
> > are...
> > 
> > 
> >   cputime          infinity secs
> >   filesize         infinity kb
> >   datasize           524288 kb
> >   stacksize           65536 kb
> >   coredumpsize     infinity kb
> >   memoryuse        infinity kb
> >   memorylocked     infinity kb
> >   maxprocesses         1861
> >   openfiles            3722
> >   sbsize           infinity bytes
> > 
> > 
> > will (top(1)) "RES" be affected by changing (login.conf(5))
> > "memoryuse" and "memorylocked" eventually, and "SIZE" by "datasize",
> > "filesize", and "stacksize"?
> > 
> > how should i start setting/testing resource limits again?
> > 
> >  - parv
> 
> I have the same problem... login.conf has set datasizes to unlimited but
> when I login through ssh it is set to 524288 kb.. :-(

Isn't that just the kernel limit?

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