Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!dayton!meccts!meccsd!mecc!herman!det From: det@herman.UUCP (Derek Terveer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: ulimit considered braindamaged ? Message-ID: <173@herman.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Jan-87 00:38:42 EST Article-I.D.: herman.173 Posted: Sat Jan 10 00:38:42 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Jan-87 09:45:57 EST References: <11012@sun.uucp> <354@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> Organization: Unisys Inc.-CSD Eagan,MN Lines: 13 Summary: yes, we have BIG files too In article <354@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU>, wyatt@cfa.harvard.EDU (Bill Wyatt) writes: > Just to add my two cents: I have only used bsd/Ultrix systems, and never > realized this file size limitation existed in Sys5. It may have seemed > reasonable at one time, but in my applications (astronomical image > processing), it would be FATAL. A typical data file for me is 1/2 Mbyte, > many are from 1 to 8 Mbytes. Some people in my group have 128 Mbyte files, > and these are by no means the largest I know of. I had to up the ulimit on our system (Vr2) quite early in the game because the compiler that we use for our program development (cms-2m) seems to think it is quite funny to create 2-6Meg *scratch* files!!! (it is an old compiler that we are, sigh.., yes STILL using and was originally written to use several tape drives for compiler interphase scratch)