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- From: mcbryde@navier.math.uh.edu (Jack Mcbryde)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: User resource limits
- Date: 19 Dec 1992 04:02:47 GMT
- Organization: UH Dept of Math
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- In article <BzGo2A.88K@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> dwight@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu writes:
- >What are the limits (setable limits, not those defined in
- >/etc/security/limits) of the user account resources:
- > stack
- > data
- >I can only set the stack up to 65536 and data to 524288.
- >The data limits the user to 260+ MB, but our modelers
- >need more (300MB or more) to do large model runs.
- >I haven't found a way to get above these limits.
-
- On the few occasions I wanted to make one of the settings 'unlimited' I
- couldn't get smit to accept '-1' as the setting. So I typed
- 'vi /etc/security/limits' and changed it manually. Never seemed to give me
- any problems.
-
- jack
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