Someone asked about this a few weeks ago, but I didn't see any replies:

Why can't I set some of the process limits higher?  Like this:

jmarin@kyyhky ~ %(41)limit
cputime         unlimited
filesize        unlimited
datasize        16384 kbytes
stacksize       512 kbytes
coredumpsize    0 kbytes
memoryuse       59184 kbytes
descriptors     64 
memorylocked    19729 kbytes
maxproc         80 
jmarin@kyyhky ~ %(42)date
Fri Feb 14 11:43:03 EET 1997
jmarin@kyyhky ~ %(43)limit stacksize 1024
jmarin@kyyhky ~ %(44)date
Abort
jmarin@kyyhky ~ %(43)unlimit stacksize
jmarin@kyyhky ~ %(44)date
Fri Feb 14 11:44:06 EET 1997
jmarin@kyyhky ~ %(45)limit stacksize
stacksize       8192 kbytes

I would like to set some limits higher to run large applications, but
there doesn't seem to be any 'safe' value for the limits (except the
'unlimit'ed value).

This happens under 1.2 (at least on i386, but I think it isn't arch
specific).  Any ideas and/or solutions?

  -jm

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