How to tweak the limit of RAM for a daemon started by a user?
Hello, Ive been reading at man login.conf and specifically the parameters for memoryuse . I have raised these for 1024MB for the specific user in question as per blow console:\ :ignorenologin:\ :datasize=infinity:\ :maxproc=infinity:\ :memoryuse=1024 :openfiles-cur=128:\ :stacksize-cur=8M:\ :localcipher=blowfish,8:\ :tc=default: However, when it starts up it complains its unable to allocate more then 512 of memory. even if I start it as root it gives the same result. What is the best way to debug this, and am raising the memory allocation correctly so that the user can run a daemon that can use 1GB of ram? Thank you Matt
Re: How to tweak the limit of RAM for a daemon started by a user?
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:55:09AM -0600, Matthew Young wrote: Hello, Ive been reading at man login.conf and specifically the parameters for memoryuse . I have raised these for 1024MB for the specific user in question as per blow console:\ :ignorenologin:\ :datasize=infinity:\ :maxproc=infinity:\ :memoryuse=1024 :openfiles-cur=128:\ :stacksize-cur=8M:\ :localcipher=blowfish,8:\ :tc=default: However, when it starts up it complains its unable to allocate more then 512 of memory. even if I start it as root it gives the same result. What is the best way to debug this, and am raising the memory allocation correctly so that the user can run a daemon that can use 1GB of ram? memoryuse only limits the amount of memory in core. datasize if the paramater you are looking for. First thing you want to check is if the user actually is in the proper login class, see userinfo(8). -Otto
Re: How to tweak the limit of RAM for a daemon started by a user?
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:55:09AM -0600, Matthew Young wrote: Hello, Ive been reading at man login.conf and specifically the parameters for memoryuse . I have raised these for 1024MB for the specific user in question as per blow console:\ :ignorenologin:\ :datasize=infinity:\ :maxproc=infinity:\ :memoryuse=1024 ^^^ :openfiles-cur=128:\ :stacksize-cur=8M:\ :localcipher=blowfish,8:\ :tc=default: However, when it starts up it complains its unable to allocate more then 512 of memory. even if I start it as root it gives the same result. In addition to Otto's comments, you are missing M:\ here. Joachim
