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More dumb rookie questions...

> You might check resource limits for the mysqld process, using
> limit/ulimit/unlimit or whatever command your particular shell wants.

When I first set up the machine a colleague told me to put the line 
--
ulimit -d 256
--
in the beginning of safe_mysqld.
In addition there is a ulimit fix for BSD systems in there.

It looks like this:
--
# Does this work on all systems?
if type ulimit | grep "shell builtin" > /dev/null
then
  ulimit -n 256 > /dev/null 2>&1		# Fix for BSD and FreeBSD
systems
fi
--

Like said, I'm a rookie, so I'm not sure what ulimit does...

> You can also use "sysctl proc.<process-id-of-your-process>" to examine
> and change the limits.

# sysctl proc.24604

proc.24604.corename = %n.core
proc.24604.rlimit.cputime.soft = unlimited
proc.24604.rlimit.cputime.hard = unlimited
proc.24604.rlimit.filesize.soft = unlimited
proc.24604.rlimit.filesize.hard = unlimited
proc.24604.rlimit.datasize.soft = 262144000
proc.24604.rlimit.datasize.hard = 262144000
proc.24604.rlimit.stacksize.soft = 2097152
proc.24604.rlimit.stacksize.hard = 33554432
proc.24604.rlimit.coredumpsize.soft = unlimited
proc.24604.rlimit.coredumpsize.hard = unlimited
proc.24604.rlimit.memoryuse.soft = 520790016
proc.24604.rlimit.memoryuse.hard = 520790016
proc.24604.rlimit.memorylocked.soft = 173596672
proc.24604.rlimit.memorylocked.hard = 520790016
proc.24604.rlimit.maxproc.soft = 80
proc.24604.rlimit.maxproc.hard = 532
proc.24604.rlimit.descriptors.soft = 256
proc.24604.rlimit.descriptors.hard = 256
# 

I think I understand the meaning of this output, but how could it help me
solve my problem?

thanx ...
Marc

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