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Administrators of large multiuser systems expect these kind of
limits to be on by default for 'ordinary users'.

Dont most vendors UNIXes have limits on by default ?

The single user workstation machine has the one power user that
can afford to get bitten once by this for the knowledge it gains
them.

Edwin Culp wrote:
> 
> David Petrou wrote:
> >
> > (Sorry if I'm writing to the wrong FreeBSD list.  "current" seems the
> > most applicable to me...)
> >
> > > Signal 24 is SIGXCPU (exceeded CPU time limit).  Check your ulimit
> > > settings ("limit" if you use csh) and your login.conf setup.
> >
> > Have you guys considered turning off limits by default?  It seems that
> > every FreeBSDer at one time or another is bit by this (including me).
> > There must have been at least 50 questions on the FreeBSD lists from
> > people wondering why they get SIGXCPU, "out of memory", etc.
> >
> > If they were off by default, this problem wouldn't exist.  And for
> > those that do want to turn them on, they can customize login.conf
> > based on their system's resources, such as amount of RAM, number of
> > users, etc.
> >
> > David
> >
> 
> I agree 100%.  Most of us have to modify them.  I usually remember
> after someone has a problem, seldom before:-)  It would be mucho
> more practical to turn them on if needed.
> 
> Ed
> 
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