Re: Ulimit clarification

From: Holger.VanKoll@SWISSCOM.COM
Date: Fri Feb 27 2004 - 10:30:49 EST


this limit is not enforced, no matter if soft or hard

more or less its useless

use data and stack limits

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From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of
Kumar, Praveen (cahoot)
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 4:08 PM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Ulimit clarification

Hi *,
        When we speak about ulimit values for a user, say a user with
ulimit
value for memory being 32768 KB can use maximum of 32MB memory per
process.
I don't think it is the maximum memory that can be used by that user.

Pl correct me if i am wrong.

TIA
Praveen.K

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