I see, you still can change it (nofiles) system wide with root, i did mine just like that
but if the limit is still 30000 on yours then I suspect some login profile is calling ulimit to fix it at 30000 if so just make the necessary change
All
I am trying to do
ulimit -d unlimited
and I get "sh: ulimit: The specified value exceeds the user's allowable limit."
Can someone please help me understand, how to change this!
Thanks (1 Reply)
Hi,
system aix 4.3
when I execute umilit i get result "unlimited".
why cant i ftp or extract from media filesize over 2gig....
e.g FS /test/testy is large file enabled.
any help will be greatly appreciated.
thnx (3 Replies)
Hi,
I need to increase the open files on my server to run a test. Usually what I do is:
ulimit -n 5000
My questions are:
1] I want to set this parameter once and for all. What is the right parameter to set in /etc/system: rlim_fd_max or rlim_fd_cur?
2] How to make sure that this... (1 Reply)
hi
what is the difference between file and data? if file is unlimited, does that mean we can have a file as big as we like?
thanks.
file(blocks) unlimited
data(kbytes) 1048576 (6 Replies)
Hi,
I have changed the ulimit for the user dsadm on one of my server. Its only changed IF i su to dsadm from root, but its not changing if i ssh to dsadm.
i want to change the data(kbytes)to unlimited. i edit the /etc/profile and .profile of dsadm user by set this my OS 11.31
ulimit -d... (1 Reply)
Hello, could you help me please?
I write in command line: "ulimit 500"
-> i've set the max size of 512-bytes blocks that i can write in one file.
But when after it i use ulimit.3c in my program: "ulimit(UL_GETFSIZE);"
the result turns out 1000. Why is it so? They always differ so that one is... (2 Replies)
Hi im a complete noob to shell commands but here is my problem i have a dedicated server i7 with 24 gig ram i have whm/cpanel on it now ive added a minecraft system to root but i cannot set the server to more than 512mb memory i was told its because the memory is being blocked and was told to... (7 Replies)
I was trying to generate core dump of a process.But it is not generated.
While digging up the issue I found that Core File Size is set to 0.
I set it with #ulimit -c unlimited.After that I found the core file size is set to 0 (ulimit -a).I exit that session and again logged in.But found the core... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: Anjan Ganguly
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
ulimit
ULIMIT(3) BSD Library Functions Manual ULIMIT(3)NAME
ulimit -- get and set process limits
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <ulimit.h>
long int
ulimit(int cmd, ...);
DESCRIPTION
The ulimit() function provides a method to query or alter resource limits of the calling process. The method to be performed is specified by
the cmd argument; possible values are:
UL_GETFSIZE Return the soft file size limit of the process. The value returned is in units of 512-byte blocks. If the result cannot be
represented in an object of type long int, the result is unspecified.
UL_SETFSIZE Set the hard and soft file size limits of the process to the value of the second argument passed, which is in units of
512-byte blocks, and which is expected to be of type long int. The new file size limit of the process is returned. Any
process may decrease the limit, but raising it is only permitted if the caller is the super-user.
If successful, the ulimit() function will not change the setting of errno.
RETURN VALUES
If successful, the ulimit() function returns the value of the requested limit. Otherwise, it returns -1, sets errno to indicate an error,
and the limit is not changed. Therefore, to detect an error condition applications should set errno to 0, call ulimit(), and check if -1 is
returned and errno is non-zero.
ERRORS
The ulimit() function will fail if:
[EINVAL] The cmd argument is not valid.
[EPERM] It was attempted to increase a limit, and the caller is not the super-user.
SEE ALSO getrlimit(2), setrlimit(2)STANDARDS
The ulimit() function conforms to X/Open System Interfaces and Headers Issue 5 (``XSH5'') and IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1''). It was
marked as obsolete in the IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (``POSIX.1'') revision, which recommended the use of getrlimit(2) and setrlimit(2) instead,
noting that because ulimit() uses the type long rather than rlim_t, it may not be sufficient for file sizes on many current systems.
BSD April 30, 2010 BSD