Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!ames!oliveb!sun!gorodish!guy From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: ulimit considered braindamaged ? Message-ID: <11159@sun.uucp> Date: Fri, 9-Jan-87 01:52:27 EST Article-I.D.: sun.11159 Posted: Fri Jan 9 01:52:27 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Jan-87 20:57:04 EST References: <790@maynard.BSW.COM> <166@herman.UUCP> <10943@sun.uucp> <752@imagen.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 11 Keywords: ulimit SysV irksome Summary: You have to reboot it anyway... > Regen of the system is totally almost totally useless in application shops. > To require that the system be brought "down" and that a new kernel be > relinked is absurd - If there are to be user-oriented "limits" as part of > the system, the default and/or system-wide maximum should be dynamically > setable by the system administrator via command. The "ulimit" is a default, not a system-wide, maximum. As such, there's not much that command can really do. It wouldn't have any effect on processes that have already been started. The most that could be done would be to set the "ulimit" when a user logs in, and have the value it's set to be the value set by this command.