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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users AIX change ulimit for a user Post 303042602 by cokedude on Wednesday 1st of January 2020 04:01:02 AM
Old 01-01-2020
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Originally Posted by zxmaus
they both do exactly the same - there is no better or worse Smilie
btw - it is almost always a bad idea to increase the hard limits for a non-root user ... and to set nofiles to unlimited
I only set nofiles = 64000. Do you think that is to high? I was just using the above as an example.
 

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