Re: Clock drift and other open issues: Collecting information
Johnny Billquist <[email protected]>
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On 2023-12-30 19:26, Mouse wrote:
>> As have been pointed out, vmemoryuse was missing from the older
>> version of tcsh I was running. [...]
>
>> By the way, if you want to unlimit everything, but limit core dumps,
>> the easier way is:
>
>> unlimit
>> limit core 0
>
> Yes, but that restricts the changes to resources your shell knows
> about.
Well. First of all, it was a comment based on what Ken was doing.
But you are correct.
> That's one reason I tend to use sysctl for querying, and sysctl -w for
> changing, resource limits. (The other is that the syntax is
> significantly less shell-dependent.)
The problem with that is that you can deal with the hard limits, but
tricky with process limits. The classic "what commands must be built-in
in a shell".
Johnny
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