On Sunday 16 January 2005 10:01 am, Jon Drews wrote: > Hi Robert: > > On OpenBSD, it appears that the the limits are set by the > /etc/login.conf file. I know NetBSD has user limits. As for FreeBSD > %.3 it too has a /etc/login.conf file. I suspect that that might be > the case in Mac OSX. Let me Google around and see what I can find out.
Jon, would you go to my Open Source blog & read this post: http://opensource.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000227027588/ & then add your comment above to the comments? tks! scott > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 07:22:28 -0800, Robert Citek > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday, Jan 13, 2005, at 15:56 US/Pacific, Robert Citek wrote: > > > I was able to successfully kill my Mac last night with the following > > > script: > > > > A quick follow up ... > > > > Using bash under Linux, this will halt the perl script before it gets > > too big: > > > > ulimit -v 10000 > > > > Using tcsh under Linux, this will work: > > > > limit vmemoryuse 10000 > > > > Neither of the above commands work in OS X 10.2.8. OS X does not allow > > modifying the virtual memory limit. Do the above commands work under > > FreeBSD (or other BSD)? > > > > Regards, > > - Robert > > http://www.cwelug.org/downloads > > Help others get OpenSource. Distribute FLOSS for > > Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CWE-LUG mailing list > > http://www.cwelug.org/ > > [email protected] > > http://lists.firepipe.net/listinfo/cwe-lug > > _______________________________________________ > CWE-LUG mailing list > http://www.cwelug.org/ > [email protected] > http://lists.firepipe.net/listinfo/cwe-lug -- R. Scott Granneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.granneman.com Full list of publications: http://www.granneman.com/publications Read the Open Source Blog: http://opensource.weblogsinc.com Join GranneNotes! Information at www.granneman.com "You shouldn't trust _any_ software. Software is _at best_ a faithful but bumbling zombie servant that ineptly performs your bidding. At worst, it's an evil zombie that wants to kill you and eat your brain." ---Mr Bad, on Trusted Computing _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list http://www.cwelug.org/ [email protected] http://lists.firepipe.net/listinfo/cwe-lug
