From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 4 0: 7: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (Ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.44.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFCAE14E84 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:06:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA70563; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 16:35:52 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) From: Greg Lewis Message-Id: <199908040705.QAA70563@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: How do you track down resource limits? In-Reply-To: <002701beddd3$205c9950$0ea78e8b@maverick.workfire.com> from Chris Singer at "Aug 3, 1999 10:10:46 am" To: Chris Singer Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 16:35:52 +0930 (CST) Cc: BSD Help X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL56 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi all, > > I'm trying to run a test using FreeBSD as my OS. Problem here is that I'm > approaching some resource limit which is skewing my results terribly. I > just started using FreeBSD so I'm pretty ignorant of how to go about finding > which resource is causing my problem. Could someone let me know what tools > are available to do this job and maybe suggest a methodology? > > Thanks, > Chris User resource limits are set in at the system level in /etc/login.conf. There are also a few hard limits compiled into the kernel which you can find in the kernel configuration file. You probably want to use tools like ps, top, etc. to track various resources the program is using. -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message