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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xz memory hungry?
From: Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> >
>> Last time I had a problem like this I spent a lot of time googling about
>> ulimit/setting_limits/etc and found _nothing_ worth mentioning. This time I
>> run "ulimit -v unlimited", but the question is who put the former values
>> there?  Some hard-coded default? I couldn't find anything in init scripts nor
>> in bash rc files. I know that on logout the value is lost (I had to run ulimit
>> again on chrooting). What is the appropriate file to put "ulimit -v unlimited"
>> in? Perhaps ~/.bash_profile? And how can root set different hard limits for
>> different users? Maybe some bash guru will step in?:)
>>
>
> probably rc.conf, or maybe login.defs depending on per user/or everyone
>
It seems rc.conf has a variable for ulimit -u, not for the other flags.
login.defs has ULIMIT but teh man page just says "Default ulimit value"
Ah well...

Thanks

J.A.