Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mumble@karl From: karl@mumble.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: 3b2/400 ulimit Message-ID: <2445@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 14:50:03 EST Article-I.D.: tut.2445 Posted: Mon Nov 30 14:50:03 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Dec-87 20:16:09 EST References: <226@tsc.UUCP> <901@csuchico.EDU> <2280@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <131@eiibank.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: karl@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Lines: 29 Keywords: ULIMIT did not become tunable until SysV.3.1 - FAR too late In-reply-to: robby@eiibank.UUCP's message of 26 Nov 87 16:36:55 GMT robby@eiibank.UUCP writes: My impression is that what is being discussed is the variable ULIMIT which is the maximum write size of a file. If so, then DO NOT mess with init. In SYS V version 2.something and later ULIMIT is a TUNABLE parameter. The max-file-size-limit is exactly what that script is supposed to fix. In fact, that limit did not become a tunable until (*cringe*) SysV.3.1; I have a SysV.3.0 3B2/400 called osu-cis which does not have any reference to ULIMIT in its /etc/master.d/kernel. The script I posted is something I wrote 2 years ago when fighting this problem every time I turned around (I am in the habit of having to move very large files around with quite some frequency), and I formalized it for myself and also sent it to Richard Stallman for inclusion in the standard GNU Emacs distribution when I was doing SysV compatibility things for that program; I picked up the copy I posted here from just such a distribution. Although it is quite tunable in The Right Way via /etc/master.d files in V.3.1, it took AT&T altogether TOO LONG to figure this out, and in fact it was ridiculous of them to have ever imposed the stupid 1Mb limit in the first place. So if you have V.3.1, please ignore the script I posted. If, however, you are one of the vast, VAST majority of non-AT&T sites (and thus cannot get V.3.1 practically for free) running V.3.0 or V.2.x.y.z.a.b, then that script will do a very nice job of "fixing" your ulimit problems. -=- Karl