On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 04:05, Herbert Pötzl wrote: > Hi Warren! > Hi Darryl! > > first, sorry Warren, for the bad diagnosis ... > > the correct answer should have been: > > I did not check when, where and how, but the > ulimit -u <#proc> option was changed between > 2.4.21 and 22-pre in such way that > > ulimit -H -u <#procs> may not decrease the > limit below the current soft limit ... > > so if, and this time I'm sure ;), you have a > higher default ulimit (see ulimit -a), it > will not be possible to set the hard limit to > a lower value, unless you reduce the default > (soft) limit too ...
Is this forever? Unfixable? Warren
