"david.aubril" <david.aubril@ac-nantes.fr> writes:
> Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> "david.aubril" <david.aubril@ac-nantes.fr> writes:
>>
>>> Hi everyone.
>>> I'm using netbsd 3.1 on a i686 laptop. On a couple of applications, I
>>> often meet memory faults. I have to raise memory each time by using
>>> ulimit -d.
>>> I was wondering how I could tune memory size once for all.
>>>
>>
>> Change your ulimits in your login script (.profile or .login depending
>> on your shell).
>
> Well, that's the solution if I use a shell to launch the
> application. But what about if I use a launcher or a shortcut in the
> menu ( in a graphical environment ) ?

That depends on how you start X. If you start it from your login shell
with "startx", then .profile works fine, because X is a descendant of
the shell where the ulimit got changed, or your .xinitrc.

If you start X with xdm, your .xsession file might be appropriate. I
do this in my .xsession to run my profile and my xinitrc, and you
could put the command into either of those:

------
#!/bin/sh

export XSESSION=YES

. .profile
. .xinitrc
------

or you could put the ulimit command directly in the .xsession.

You could also do it in your window manager init file, depending on
the window manager and how it works.

If you use xdm, another possibility is to do it in an additional
script for the xdm launcher, such as adding a /etc/rc.conf.d/xdm
script containing the right ulimit command.

There are probably a dozen ways to do this but they're all varations
on the same theme.

-- 
Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com