There is _definitely_ something screwy with limit..

(alpha ~)72# limit stacksize
stacksize       512 kbytes
(alpha ~)73# uname -mrs
NetBSD 1.2 i386
(alpha ~)74# limit stacksize 512
(alpha ~)75# limit stacksize
stacksize       512 kbytes
(alpha ~)76# uname -mrs
Abort
(alpha ~)77# limit stacksize 512k
(alpha ~)78# uname -mrs
NetBSD 1.2 i386

	It reports the stacksize as in k but will set in bytes?

	Sounds like you should send in a pr!

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On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Jukka Marin wrote:

> 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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