From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 17 23:10:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17BC837B401 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 23:10:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from chkno.net (12-212-54-251.client.attbi.com [12.212.54.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4342E43F75 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 23:10:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chkno@chkno.net) Received: from chkno.net (chkno@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chkno.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1I7AcEZ014387; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 23:10:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chkno@chkno.net) Received: (from chkno@localhost) by chkno.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1I7AbPe014386; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 23:10:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 23:10:37 -0800 (PST) From: chkno Message-Id: <200302180710.h1I7AbPe014386@chkno.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ulimit -d's upper limit Cc: chkno@chkno.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What defines ulimit -d's upper limit? When I try to raise it, it doesn't appear to move: # ulimit -d 524288 # ulimit -d 1000 ; ulimit -d 1000 # ulimit -d 999999999999 ; ulimit -d 524288 # ulimit -d unlimited ; ulimit -d 524288 My system: $ uname -a FreeBSD chkno.net 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Sun Nov 10 02:31:58 PST 2002 root@chkno.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CHK i386 $ grep memory /var/run/dmesg.boot real memory = 536870912 (524288K bytes) avail memory = 516456448 (504352K bytes) $ swapinfo Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/ad1s1b 524000 63100 460900 12% Interleaved /dev/ad1s2b 524160 62872 461288 12% Interleaved Total 1048160 125972 922188 12% To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message