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Old 11th May 2013
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Question Login class 'staff' datasize limits

Hello, my main user is assigned to the login class staff, as I can see issuing a userinfo command. File /etc/login.conf is the default and unchanged.

The problem is that I hit the datasize-cur memory limit of 512 Mb as expected and the process dies, but then I wonder why is the datasize-max limit set to infinity for, if the system does not allows a process to go farther than datasize-cur.

I am puzzled.
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datasize-cur is the CURRENT limit. datasize-max is what this class is allowed to raise the datasize-cur limit to:

$ whoami
rocket357
$ userinfo rocket357 | grep class
class staff
$ ulimit -d
524288
$ ulimit -d 710000
$ ulimit -d
710000

By default datasize is 512 MB, but I am allowed to raise it to datasize-max...
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So you mean it is not automatic, and one have to raise the limit oneself using ulimit?

Thanks!

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What would be the point of having a *limit* if it automatically rose with use?

It's designed such that you can do something like the following:

alias firefox='ulimit -d 768000; firefox'

It allows you to configure per-process limits (while maintaining sane default settings).
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Good to know. Thanks again!
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I have tried to alias some commands like your example, upping datasize limits, and they work from command line as expected. However when I tried them from spectrwm's dmenu (using xdm to log in), the processes crash when they reach the limits in login.conf, not the specified in the aliases.

Alias are set in ~/.profile
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You'll have to get someone who is familiar with spectrwm to answer that one.
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It happens in WindowMaker too.

I think it is something related to xdm.

edit: 2013-05-17: BTW, in the end, having 6 GB of memory, I raised datasize-cur to 5 GB, enough for most desktop applications. Lazy me

Thanks again, rocket357, I had not thought about ulimit without your help. I was more familiar with csh than with ksh.

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