On 2025-09-05, Heppler, J. Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been testing the newly committed CAD/freecad port and would first > like to acknowledge the amount and quality of work that went into the > port. > > One of my models has some fine detail that was not 3D printing and > attempts to increase the meshing resolution for STL export core dumped. > For completeness, CAD drafting is known to be memory intense. > > I worked around this by joining the staff group and editing "infinity" > memory limits. > > Technically, I only need the memory limits for CAD work and recognize > that memory limits are a safety feature. > > I was wondering if a feature could be added at login to increase login > to the same home directory with increased limits? Login via xenodm? > This would save editing /etc/login.conf and a reboot. It would also > limit the amount of time of increased memory vulnerability.
No need for an extra OS feature. You can raise the hard limit in login.conf (-max) but not the soft limit, then use an alias or wrapper script to adjust the soft limit via ulimit before starting your memory- hungry process. -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
