On 02/28/2013 06:00 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Daniel Herrington wrote:
>
>> This just came across from our Sys Admin team:
>> *
>> "They may be able to increase it [user processes] a little, but probably
>> not enough to resolve the problem, which was the case last time we saw this
>> issue. Linux [user processes] cannot be set to unlimited like other unix
>> flavors."*
>>
>> I find this hard to believe. However, the more I think about it maybe it's
>> true since you need to put a # in /etc/security/limits.conf?
> Daniel,
>
>     For those of us not in the profession please explain the context of this
> issue. Does it refer to the number of processes owned by each user, the
> resources used by all processes owned by a user, or something else?
>
> Just curious,
>
> Rich
Changing ulimit -c is also necessary if you would like a core dump from 
a program when it crashes - say from a segmentation fault. It's been a 
while since I have used it, but a core dump can be real handy. Start up 
a debugger like ddd (data display debugger), load a core dump and you 
can see exactly where your program crashed.

Wayne

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