From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 13 12:58:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA20154 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:58:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA20144 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:58:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA02553; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:58:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:58:14 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Ian Kallen cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: system and shell limits In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Ian Kallen wrote: > > I'm trying to load a Very Large Hash in perl (5.004_001) and the program > is silently exiting (it works fine when the hash is small but after > exceeding 150k records it fails). My shell limits are > > Resource limits (current): > cputime infinity secs > filesize infinity kb > datasize 262144 kb > stacksize 65536 kb > coredumpsize infinity kb > memoryuse infinity kb > memorylocked infinity kb > maxprocesses 8211 > openfiles 16424 > > I'm logging into tcsh v6.07 > Any suggestions for increasing the ceiling on that resources I can use? Modify /etc/login.conf and raise the limits. Don't forget to rebuild the database. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major