Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> 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.

ok, does that work with a process that starts as root (run from an
rc.d script) that then changes itself to another user?

ie: if I set 'zope' to have a soft memory limit of 256MB
in login.conf, would that apply?  Or is that only run if/when
a user account is logged in?