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Operating Systems AIX What are the ideal ulimit settings for root user in AIX? Post 302902358 by dluk on Tuesday 20th of May 2014 06:41:53 AM
Old 05-20-2014
As suggested by others why would you want to set limits for root? If you limit root you risk locking yourself out of the OS. Any applications running should run as a user created for the task, you can then apply limits to that user to protect the servers performance without risking blocking the root user.
Just today we had an application spin out of control and hit the limit of processes for the user account which had started the application. This meant that application support could not login to the server, but as root I was able to login and kill the rogue process.
 

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Padre::Config(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					Padre::Config(3pm)

NAME
Padre::Config - Configuration subsystem for Padre SYNOPSIS
use Padre::Config; [...] if ( Padre::Config->main_statusbar ) { [...] } DESCRIPTION
This module not only stores the complete Padre configuration, it also holds the functions for loading and saving the configuration. The Padre configuration lives in two places: a user-editable text file usually called config.yml an SQLite database which shouldn't be edited by the user Generic usage Every setting is accessed by a mutator named after it, i.e. it can be used both as a getter and a setter depending on the number of arguments passed to it. Different types of settings Padre needs to store different settings. Those preferences are stored in different places depending on their impact. But "Padre::Config" allows one to access them with a unified API (a mutator). Only their declaration differs in the module. Here are the various types of settings that "Padre::Config" can manage: o User settings Those settings are general settings that relates to user preferences. They range from general user interface look & feel (whether to show the line numbers, etc.) to editor preferences (tab width, etc.) and other personal settings. Those settings are stored in a YAML file, and accessed with "Padre::Config::Human". o Host settings Those preferences are related to the host on which Padre is run. The principal example of those settings are window appearance. Those settings are stored in a DB file, and accessed with "Padre::Config::Host". o Project settings Those preferences are related to the project of the file you are currently editing. Examples of those settings are whether to use tabs or spaces, etc. Those settings are accessed with "Padre::Config::Project". ADDING CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
Add a "setting()" - call to the correct section of this file. The setting() call initially creates the option and defines some metadata like the type of the option, it's living place and the default value which should be used until the user configures a own value. COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE Copyright 2008-2012 The Padre development team as listed in Padre.pm. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5 itself. perl v5.14.2 2012-06-27 Padre::Config(3pm)
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