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From: chiuc@navajo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (C.Y. Chiu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: No more process?
Date: 20 Sep 1995 02:44:08 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <DEztxL.2ts@seeware.DIALix.oz.au>,
Mark Hannon <mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au> wrote:

>: either for you locally in a shell try limit/unlimit in the csh/tcsh or
>: ulimit in bash (and maybe sh) - the other way would be to look into the
>: /sys/i386/conf/LINT file:
>
>Just a note.  If you are running X under xdm (as I do) then you will need
>to set this ulimit stuff up in the Xsession script which is executed at
>login. It won't really help to set it from an xterm because in any case
>the grandparent process will be Xsession and it will have the low limit.
>(which I think is 40 by the way - set by the shell).

Thanks for the tip!  Oh! my memoryuse of "limit" is set at 15012K, does 
that have something to do with the amount physical memory I have? I used 
to have 16mb of RAM when I installed 2.0.5R, but I recently upgraded to
32mb, so should I set the memoryuse to something larger? Or should I just
keep it the way it is? Thanks for the help! :)

cheers

Chun-Yang Chiu
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cchiu@uclink.berkeley.edu