Re: [Sheflug] ulimit

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <nospam [at] ragingbull.com>]

On Mon, 7 May 2001, Will Newton wrote:

> I just noticed that the current version of RedHat (boo! hiss!) that I'm
> running has the file size limit set to 40M, which seems rather stingy. Has
> anyone got any insights as to why it might be set this low? I can't find
> any change logs that specify why. Where's the best place to put 'ulimit -f
> unlimited'? Any problems that might be caused?

I think, with kernels 2.4.<various> you might get problems of various
degree of severity with files larger than 2Gb:-))

Guennadi
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
email: G.Liakhovetski [at] sheffield.ac.uk


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