I ran the ulimit -a command from the prompt on one of my machines the response was 2999023 on the other machine it was 1004896, what does this number represent. And if I change it will it help with my swap space problems on the machine that is displaying 1004896. What is the command for changing it.
Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations gkittelson on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
Setting swap space limits
- Thread starter dgivens2
- Start date
ulimit is a shell builtin. Under "sh" ulimit -a reports the amount of virtual memory a process can use (in KB). If you use /bin/ulimit -a it will give you a complete output of process resource limits (or you could simply fire up a ksh). Changing the amount of virtual memory that a process can consume may help with swap space issues but my guess is that you either don't have enough swap configured or you have a process that's gone awry and consumed a substantial portion of your swap space. If this is a development system, you may have someone writing a program and they're inadvertantly utilizing the space...
- Status
Similar threads
