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.
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