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From: Morsal Rodbay <morsal@swipnet.se>
To: parv <parv_@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: how to set resource limits
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In-Reply-To: <20020121111645.GA381@moo.holy.cow>; from parv_@yahoo.com on Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 06:16:45AM -0500
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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.. :-(

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