On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 10:13:03AM -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > That's great, but it's a programmatic method, I'm really looking more > for a definition on what it does compared to fs.file-max in sysctl.conf? Ulimit provides access to the getrlimit/setrlimit functionality from the shell on a per-process basis. It's often diddled in the system-wide bashrc. Users can't up their own limits, but can reduce them. If the value set anywhere in scope by a ulimit call is lower than the value in sysctl.conf, that lower value take precedence. Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat President, DMINET Consulting, Inc. dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx
