Re: Computation of 'ulimit -dH' hard-limit values?

2013-10-30 Thread Michael van Elst
jdba...@mylinuxisp.com (John D. Baker) writes: Just how are the hard limit values for 'ulimit' (particularly data size, -d) calculated? Are there any machine-dependencies that affect this calculation? The data size limit is bounded by the arch dependent value MAXDSIZ defined in

Computation of 'ulimit -dH' hard-limit values?

2013-10-29 Thread John D. Baker
Just how are the hard limit values for 'ulimit' (particularly data size, -d) calculated? Are there any machine-dependencies that affect this calculation? What I've observed on i386, amd64 and sparc is that the hard limit is approximately RAM+swap. On macppc (other powerpc platforms?) it