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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!uunet!in3.uu.net!news.iij.ad.jp!triton.ad.jp!news1.pu-toyama.ac.jp!icews5!cancer.nca5.ad.jp!kudpc!kuis-news!wnoc-kyo-news!hakozaki.karrn!wnoc-fukuoka-news!js-fukuoka-news!js-fuktech-news!news-gw!gleeson From: gleeson@ferret.justsystem.co.jp Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: 'limit' problems with datasize Date: 26 Aug 1996 04:55:48 GMT Organization: Justsystem Corporation Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <GLEESON.96Aug26135548@ferret.justsystem.co.jp> Reply-To: Timothy_Gleeson@justsystem.co.jp NNTP-Posting-Host: ferret.tkstech.justsystem.co.jp I've got 2 boxes running 2.1 and 2.0.1 and with both of them observe the following behaviour. The standard systemwide soft and hard limits on a process' datasize are 16MB and 64MB respectively, as set in param.c. However, for all users 'limit' and 'limit -h' both say the datasize limit is 32M. As superuser, I can do a 'limit -h datasize unlimited' and then looking at the value set it says 64MB, as expected. So, why are the limits set at 32MB/32MB rather than 16MB/64MB? Tim -- Tim Gleeson Justsystem Corporation Timothy_Gleeson@justsystem.co.jp Okihama Higashi 3-46 Tokushima 770, Japan