questions on ULIMIT

[Chris Fadrowski]

I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to set the "ulimit" on a particular user to unlimited. 4194303 is what i get now, want to make it unlimited for oracle..

[Rita C Workman]

I found something at this url that may help you:

http://my1.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xf494e8644a22d411ade70090279cd0f9!1,00.html

[Steffi Jones_1]

Hello,

The Korn shell can set the ulimit to unlimited:

# uname -r # uname -r
B.10.20 B.11.00
# ulimit # ulimit
unlimited unlimited
# ulimit 100 # ulimit 100
# ksh # ksh
# ulimit # ulimit
100 100
# ulimit 4194304 # ulimit 4194303
# ulimit # ulimit
4194304 4194303
# /usr/bin/sh # /usr/bin/sh
# ulimit # ulimit
unlimited unlimited
#
# grep ULIMIT_MAX /usr/include/sys/resource.h
# define ULIMIT_MAX bt2bk(0x80000000)
#
# grep ULIMIT_MAX /usr/include/sys/resource.h
# define ULIMIT_MAX bt2bk(0x7fffffff)

The difference between the Korn and the POSIX shell is that the POSIX
shell knows that the numerical value ULIMIT_MAX has a special meaning.

Steffi Jones