On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:58:50PM +0100, Martin Wuertele wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:24:30PM +0100, Imre Vida wrote: > > > Watch the kernel log /var/log/syslog, or > > > Check resource limits (umlilit -a, ulimit -Sa), or > > thanks, this is the problem > > cpu time is set to 3600 s > > > > and now, how on earth can i set this value? > > root can change this in /etc/security/limits.conf yes, thanks in the meantime i also found this file and tried to re-set the limits, but does not seem to work
this is what i put in there (these are the default values on my laptop without any data in /etc/security/limits.conf !!) * hard core unlimited * soft core 0 * hard data unlimited * hard nofile 1024 * hard cpu unlimited * hard nproc unlimited * soft nproc 256 but when i log in (via ssh) i got the following limits again ~$ ulimit -Ha core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited data seg size (kbytes, -d) 20480 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 24 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 cpu time (seconds, -t) 3600 max user processes (-u) 30 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited in the meantime i also upgraded that machine to woody and compiled the 2.4.17 kernel but this does not change anyting at all. i am absolutly lost... q1: where are the default values set? q2: what else do i have to do so that the values in /etc/security/limits.conf can take effect?