ULIMIT flame
Art Neilson
art at pilikia.pegasus.com
Mon Mar 4 07:13:47 AEST 1991
In article <-DT9=.F at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Argh!!!!
>
>We run a network containing a wide variety of UNIX systems, with perpetually
>overflowing disks. If anyone is ever likely to be helped by ulimits, it'd
>be us. I have yet to discover a single case where ulimit has saved us from
>running out of disk space... on the contrary, it's been a perpetual pain.
>We used to maintain "rational" ulimits, but now just max them out whenever
>we run into one that's left over from the old days, or on a new system.
>
>Is there anyone out there who has ever had cause to be thankful for ulimits?
Not me. The ulimit only prevents you from creating a file of ulimit size or
greater, it doesn't help at all of someone creates a zillion files each less
than the ulimit and overflows a filesystem.
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