Re: strange system resource limits

2012-08-10 Thread Ted Unangst
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 23:35, Friedrich Locke wrote: > There are different level of responsaiblity. > > 0. setrlimit should be allowed to set any limit the super user wants. > 1. physical addressing to 64 bit boundary > 2. hardware pratical limit > > Anyway using arbitraty limits like openbsd do

Re: strange system resource limits

2012-08-10 Thread Philip Guenther
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Friedrich Locke wrote: > There are different level of responsaiblity. > > 0. setrlimit should be allowed to set any limit the super user wants. > 1. physical addressing to 64 bit boundary > 2. hardware pratical limit > > Anyway using arbitraty limits like openbsd d

Re: strange system resource limits

2012-08-10 Thread Friedrich Locke
There are different level of responsaiblity. 0. setrlimit should be allowed to set any limit the super user wants. 1. physical addressing to 64 bit boundary 2. hardware pratical limit Anyway using arbitraty limits like openbsd does for stack is really bad design. Using arbitrary limit for data is

Re: strange system resource limits

2012-08-10 Thread Geoff Steckel
On 08/10/2012 06:33 PM, Vijay Sankar wrote: Quoting Friedrich Locke : Hi, i have setted my system resources for a given user via login.conf, but after the user login the ulimit -a returns different values. Here is my login.conf entry: general:\ :coredumpsize=infinity:\ :cputi

Re: strange system resource limits

2012-08-10 Thread Vijay Sankar
Quoting Friedrich Locke : Hi, i have setted my system resources for a given user via login.conf, but after the user login the ulimit -a returns different values. Here is my login.conf entry: general:\ :coredumpsize=infinity:\ :cputime=infinity:\ :datasize=infinity:\