Re: Memory limitation per process in AIX 5.2

From: Drew Myers (myersd@VANGUARDCAR.COM)
Date: Tue Apr 27 2004 - 11:40:05 EDT


Excellent, thanks John. That got me where I needed to go.

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 09:39, John Jolet wrote:
> ulimit -Ha as oracle will show you. it's set in /etc/security/limits.
> There should be a default stanza and you can add one for oracle. Bear
> in mind that giving oracle unlimited on all those can impact other
> processes.
>
> Drew Myers wrote:
>
> >Hello all,
> >
> >I've been working with an Oracle DBA lately, and he's asked me something
> >I don't know the answer to. Is there a per-process memory limitation in
> >AIX 5.2? The way my system is currently configured there is no hard
> >limit, but he can't seem to access more than 2GB, regardless of what he
> >sets STACK and DATA to via ulimit.
> >
> >In HPUX, there's a kernel parameter that controls this, but I thought in
> >AIX this was all dynamic. Am I missing something?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Drew
> >
> >



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