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Re: RE[2]: tcsh limits
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
You're correct.
--Ariel
> Ariel Biener <ariel@fireball.tau.ac.il> wrote:
>
> >You cannot limit -h a resource as user.
>
> Of course, you can - but to a _lower_ value then the currrent one. This is
> exactly like with nice(1) - a user can schedule prioirity of his task to a
> highernumber, but once done, can't put it back.
>
> Example: on a server, I put these lines at the beginning of
> /etc/csh.cshrc:
>
> limit -h cputime 1800
> limit cputime 1800
> limit -h datasize 16384
> limit datasize 16384
> limit -h memoryuse 16384
> limit memoryuse 16384
>
> Now, logging as a user:
>
> $ limit -h memoryuse
> memoryuse 16384 kbytes
>
> $ limit -h memoryuse 16385
> limit: memoryuse: Can't set hard limit
>
> But
>
> $ limit -h memoryuse 16383
>
> is fine. Trying to put it back:
>
> $ limit -h memoryuse 16384
> limit: memoryuse: Can't set hard limit
>
> Regards,
>
> Evgeny
>
>
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