Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:50:13 +0100 From: Morsal Rodbay <morsal@swipnet.se> To: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> Cc: f-q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how to set resource limits Message-ID: <20020212115013.A51934@zigman.2y.net> In-Reply-To: <20020121111645.GA381@moo.holy.cow>; from parv_@yahoo.com on Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 06:16:45AM -0500 References: <20020121111645.GA381@moo.holy.cow>
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 06:16:45AM -0500, parv wrote: > last time i set the limits in /etc/login.conf, i couldn't start the > X server (not enough memory allocation). i don't want to repeat my > previous mistake as to start X again it involved 2-3 reboots. > > a few minutes ago, netscape 4.79 swelled to about >500M in both SIZE > and RES as indicated by top(1) (everything slowed, had to kill it). > > i had read the man pages for limits, my shell (bash), and > login.conf. in login.conf, everything is unlimited; current limits > are... > > > cputime infinity secs > filesize infinity kb > datasize 524288 kb > stacksize 65536 kb > coredumpsize infinity kb > memoryuse infinity kb > memorylocked infinity kb > maxprocesses 1861 > openfiles 3722 > sbsize infinity bytes > > > will (top(1)) "RES" be affected by changing (login.conf(5)) > "memoryuse" and "memorylocked" eventually, and "SIZE" by "datasize", > "filesize", and "stacksize"? > > how should i start setting/testing resource limits again? > > - parv I have the same problem... login.conf has set datasizes to unlimited but when I login through ssh it is set to 524288 kb.. :-( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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