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
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