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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 10:06:23 -0500
From: Bob Willcox <bob@pmr.com>
To: questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: I'm confused about the limits command
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I have not been able to get the limits command to allow me to raise
my memoryuse-cur value.  As an example:

b@vader-p2 /luke/home/bob> limits -m
Resource limits (current):
  memoryuse-max       65536 kb
  memoryuse-cur       32768 kb

As I understand it, this should allow me increase my memoryuse-cur
to 64MB.  However, when I do:

bob@vader-p2 /luke/home/bob> limits -m 64M
Resource limits (current):
  memoryuse           65536 kb

and then again:

bob@vader-p2 /luke/home/bob> limits -m
Resource limits (current):
  memoryuse-max       65536 kb
  memoryuse-cur       32768 kb

I'm still stuck with only 32MB.  I am running pdksh, though I've
tried this on tcsh and csh as well.  This is on 2.2-stable as of
7/5/97.

Please help!  What am I missing here?

Thanks,
-- 
Bob Willcox	       Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread
bob@luke.pmr.com         to determine which side it is buttered on.
Austin, TX                 -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"