ULIMIT flame

[Peter da Silva]

In article <-DT9=.F at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> Is there anyone out there who has ever had cause to be thankful for ulimits?

In article <901 at fnx.UUCP> del at fnx.UUCP (Dag Erik Lindberg) writes:
> Sure, any time a program runs away filling up the disk.

In practice I find this sort of thing usually involves a command being
called over and over again from cron. And ULIMIT doesn't help in that
case.

> A large value, like 20 meg, for ULIMIT ...

You actually can depend on having 20 Meg free on all your disks? Here it's
"can I borrow a couple of meg for a while?"...
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