Subject: Re: managing process memory limits on the fly?
To: Carl Brewer <carl@bl.echidna.id.au>
From: Jeff Rizzo <riz@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/21/2007 17:58:31
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Carl Brewer wrote:
>
> ahha,  I've just doubled the soft limit to 256MB, and will see how it
> goes.
> Thankyou.
> Is it possible to do this for a particular account only?  I
> have a 'zope' user that I want to be able to use a lot of memory
> and it would be handy if I could let it do that?  I assume
> sysctl or limit|ulimit will let me change soft limits as that
> user in a login script or startup script or something?, or is it more
> elegant/correct to do it elsewhere?

You can either do it in your shell configuration (with ulimit), or in
login.conf.

+j




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