Discrepancy between ulimit command and /etc/security/limits settings.

[kenwalters]

I have set the stack limit in /etc/security/limits for a user to 4194304, but if I su to that user and perform a ulimit -a, stack = 2097152. Is this normal? Do I need to set a higher hard limit on stack?
This is in AIX 6.1 TL6 SP3.

 

[TSch]

Hi kenwalters,

I'm not 100% sure but I think this could be normal ...

In the /etc/security/limits file it says:

"soft stack segment size in blocks"

(Note: It says "blocks" here)

Running ulimit -a it says:

stack(kbytes)

(Note: It says "kbytes" here)

Regards,
Thomas