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limits.conf ulimits not being applied to chrooted processes
We allow users to execute scripts on our servers. Our security model involves chrooting them. We want to be able to apply ulimit restrictions to them, and the best way to do it would seem to be in ...
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Update ulimit parameters on ubuntu with out restarting
I am trying to update ulimit open files limit from 1024 to 30000.
but i need this change with out restarting the server?
Even on restarting the server this changes are not reflected
followed this ...
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coredumps don't work after enabling them in /etc/security/limits.conf on Debian
I have some init scripts that launch some daemons that I wrote. I want Linux to generate a coredump anytime something crashes. I activated coredumps in /etc/security/limits.conf by adding the next ...
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How to increase stack limit permanently without restarting
I need to increase the default stack size on Linux. As I know there are usually two ways:
ulimit -s size
/etc/security/limits.conf
The ulimit method only works as long as I am logged in.
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strange behaviour with ulimit on Mac OS X 10.6
I get some very strange behaviour when working with ulimit.
I just open up a new shell
Hector:~ robertj$ ulimit -a
core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) ...
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Increase the maximum number of open file descriptors in Snow Leopard?
I am trying to do something that requires a large number of file descriptors
sudo ulimit -n 12288 is as high as Snow Leopard wants to go; beyond this results in
/usr/bin/ulimit: line 4: ulimit: ...
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How do I change the default ulimit values?
I'm trying to generate a core dump, and the default value of ulimit -c is zero, meaning no core dumps for me :( Where does this default value of 0 for the maximum core dump size come from?
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ulimit soft limit for file descriptors - for a non-root user on CentOS 5.6
I am needing to increase the soft limit for "file descriptors", and make it effective for a non-root user (lets say user1).
Ran these commands, while logged in as user1:
>ulimit -a
core ...
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how to limit resource in Linux
I've posted a question about this few hours ago on Stack Overflow:
Linux bash inline command to execute a program and limit the resource
As I know, to limit the resource I can use ulimit ...
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Linux: Make “ulimit” limits be cumulative across spawned “subprocesses”
Let's say I have program #1 launching program #2 which is launching program #3.
If I call
ulimit -t 10
before calling program #1, then EACH program will be alloted 10 seconds of CPU time.
Could I ...
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How to change default ulimit values in Mac OS X 10.6?
Mac OS X limits number of processes to 266 and open files to 256. Sometimes this is problem; 256 open files and 266 processes aren't that much.
How it's possible to change default ulimit values in ...
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ulimit broke my server
I ran "ulimit -v 75" to get SBCL working, and now nothing will run on my server.
$ sbcl
Killed
$ vi
Killed
$ man ulimit
Killed
$ ulimit -v 256
-bash: ulimit: virtual memory: cannot modify limit: ...
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What parameters has ulimit?
I see in examples, that the Option -u is used, but I cannot find a documentation, that says what that option means. man ulimit shows the manual for a C-function. What options has ulimit and what does ...
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ulimit not limiting memory usage
When writing program, there are times when a runaway program slurps half of my RAM (generally due to practically infinite loops while creating large data structures), and bringing the system to become ...
