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- From: magerman@watson.ibm.com (David Magerman;046923)
- Subject: Re: User resource limits
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 22:54:36 GMT
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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.
-
- We have similar memory requirements. We work around the data memory
- limits by using shared memory. Assuming you are writing C programs,
- you can use the shmget() system call to get more than 256MB of dynamic
- memory.
-
- -- David Magerman
- magerman@watson.ibm.com
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