From: joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson)
To: schaefer@nbn.com
Cc: Peter Stephenson <pws@ifh.de>,
zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: OPEN_MAX from sysconf
Date: 13 Nov 1996 23:46:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xof7mnplike.fsf@emma.pdc.kth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Bart Schaefer"'s message of Wed, 13 Nov 1996 09:46:00 -0800
"Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com> writes:
> I don't think it's worth the effort.
Maybe not, but the current situation is not only optimal.
> In practice there's always going to be *some* hard limit, even if
> it's in the thousands; a few thousand chars allocated isn't going to
> make that much difference to zsh.
A somewhat fabricated example (this is with the patch):
-------------------------------------
bash# uname -mrs
NetBSD 1.2 i386
bash# sysctl kern.maxfiles
kern.maxfiles = 1772
bash# sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=1000000000
kern.maxfiles: 1772 -> 1000000000
bash# ulimit -Hn unlimited
bash# ulimit -n unlimited
bash# zsh
zsh: fatal error: out of memory
bash# ulimit -n 1000
bash# zsh
zsh# limit -h
cputime unlimited
filesize unlimited
datasize 256MB
stacksize 8MB
coredumpsize unlimited
memoryuse 16MB
memorylocked 16MB
maxproc unlimited
descriptors 1000000000
zsh# limit descriptors 1000000000
zsh# uname
zsh: segmentation fault uname
-------------------------------------
/Johan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-11-13 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-11-13 15:10 Peter Stephenson
1996-11-13 16:14 ` Johan Danielsson
1996-11-13 16:28 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-11-13 17:46 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-11-13 22:46 ` Johan Danielsson [this message]
1996-11-13 17:11 ` Bart Schaefer
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