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Brian,
>Date: 13 Jun 2003 10:07:02 -0400
>From: "Brian S Maher" <address@hidden>
>Organization: National Hurricane Center
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 20030610: LDM under hpux
The above message contained the following:
> What's interesting on HPUX, the output to ulimit is shell dependent.
That's interesting. On our system the limit is shell-independent:
% uname -srv
HP-UX B.11.00 E
% echo $SHELL
/bin/csh
% ulimit -a
time(seconds) unlimited
file(blocks) unlimited
data(kbytes) 65536
stack(kbytes) 8192
memory(kbytes) unlimited
coredump(blocks) 4194303
nofiles(descriptors) 60
% /bin/sh
$ ulimit -a
time(seconds) unlimited
file(blocks) unlimited
data(kbytes) 65536
stack(kbytes) 8192
memory(kbytes) unlimited
coredump(blocks) 4194303
nofiles(descriptors) 60
$ /opt/gnu/bin/bash
/opt/ldm: ulimit -a
core file size (blocks) 2097151
data seg size (kbytes) 65536
file size (blocks) unlimited
max memory size (kbytes) unlimited
open files 60
pipe size (512 bytes) 16
stack size (kbytes) 8192
cpu time (seconds) unlimited
max user processes 76
virtual memory (kbytes) unlimited
> HP is sending me instructions on how to make this parm unlimited.
I would very much like to hear what they have to say.
Regards,
Steve Emmerson