On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:26:46AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 04:05, Herbert P�tzl 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?
I, personally, consider it a bug, and therefor posted something on lkml, but it seems, that either nobody noticed, or nobody cares ... best, Herbert > Warren
