On Friday 23 November 2007 06:45:32 Joachim Backes wrote: > a lot of values can be controlled by /etc/security/limits.conf. But > I miss the parameter for the max virtual memory size: How is its > name in Fedora? The file comments seem to indicate that you want "as", address space limit. A related parameter is "rss". Comments in my version of the file: - core - limits the core file size (KB) - data - max data size (KB) - fsize - maximum filesize (KB) - memlock - max locked-in-memory address space (KB) - nofile - max number of open files - rss - max resident set size (KB) - stack - max stack size (KB) - cpu - max CPU time (MIN) - nproc - max number of processes - as - address space limit - maxlogins - max number of logins for this user - maxsyslogins - max number of logins on the system - priority - the priority to run user process with - locks - max number of file locks the user can hold - sigpending - max number of pending signals - msgqueue - max memory used by POSIX message queues (bytes) - nice - max nice priority allowed to raise to - rtprio - max realtime priority -- Garry T. Williams --- +1 678 656-4579