monitoring ulimit data: anything in Glance?

[Peter Heinemann]

We'd like to monitor a process to see whether/when it is hitting the ulimit data fence. Curious whether the DATA value in the Glance/Process List/Memory Regions screen is in fact the ulimit Data vs. maxdsiz parameter.

If not, how else can we monitor ulimit data?
Also, if Glance is the tool, which screens/items will monitor the other ulimit values?

Thanks.

[Brian Bergstrand]

ulimits are kept in the structures the kernel uses to track each process. I don't think the kernel keeps counters on when these process limits are hit. Glance could do this itself as it was running by monitoring the process, but I haven't seen that in any Glance screen. You could check the process detail screen though.

You may be able to get this info if you turned on audit logging. That would probably log when a process hit some kind of resource limit, but I don't know if you could tell it was due to a restriction imposed by ulimit.

This probably wasn't too much help...