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NAME
limits
- set or display process resource limits
SYNOPSIS
[-C class | -U user
]
[-SHB
]
[-ea
]
[-bcdflmnstuv [val
]
]
[-C class | -U user
]
[-SHB
]
[-bcdflmnstuv [val
]
]
[-E
]
[[name = value ...
]
command
]
DESCRIPTION
The
utility either prints or sets kernel resource limits, and may optionally set
environment variables like
env(1)
and run a program with the selected resources.
Three uses of the
utility are possible:
[limitflags
]
[name = value ...
]
command
This usage sets limits according to
limitflags
optionally sets environment variables given as
name = value
pairs, and then runs the specified
command
[limitflags
]
This usage determines values of resource settings according to
limitflags
does not attempt to set them and outputs these values to
standard output.
By default, this will output the current kernel resource settings
active for the calling process.
Using the
-C class
or
-U user
options, you may also display the current resource settings modified
by the appropriate login class resource limit entries from
the
login.conf5
login capabilities database.
-e [limitflags
]
This usage determines values of resource settings according to
limitflags
but does not set them itself.
Like the previous usage, it outputs these values to standard
output, except that it will emit them in
eval
format, suitable for the calling shell.
The calling shell is determined by examining the entries in the
/proc
file system for the parent process.
If the shell is known (i.e., it is one of
sh , csh , bash , tcsh , ksh , pdksh
or
rc )
emits
limit
or
ulimit
commands in the format understood by
that shell.
If the name of the shell cannot be determined, then the
ulimit
format used by
sh(1)
is used.
This is very useful for setting limits used by scripts, or prior
launching of daemons and other background tasks with specific
resource limit settings, and provides the benefit of allowing
global configuration of maximum resource usage by maintaining a
central database of settings in the login class database.
Within a shell script,
will normally be used with eval within backticks as follows:
"eval `limits -e -C daemon`"
which causes the output of
to be evaluated and set by the current shell.
The value of
limitflags
specified in the above contains one or more of the following options:
-C class
Use current resource values, modified by the resource entries applicable
for the login class
class
-U user
Use current resource values, modified by the resource entries applicable
to the login class the
user
belongs to.
If user does not belong to any class, then the resource capabilities
for the
``default
''
class are used, if it exists, or the
``root
''
class if the user is a superuser account.
-S
Select display or setting of
``soft''
(or current) resource limits.
If specific limits settings follow this switch, only soft limits are
affected unless overridden later with either the
-H
or
-B
options.
-H
Select display or setting of
``hard''
(or maximum) resource limits.
If specific limits settings follow this switch, only hard limits are
affected until overridden later with either the
-S
or
-B
options.
-B
Select display or setting of both
``soft''
(current) or
``hard''
(maximum)
resource limits.
If specific limits settings follow this switch, both soft and hard
limits are affected until overridden later with either the
-S
or
-H
options.
-e
Select
``eval mode''
formatting for output.
This is valid only on display mode and cannot be used when running a
command.
The exact syntax used for output depends upon the type of shell from
which
is invoked.
-b [val
]
Select or set the
sbsize
resource limit.
-c [val
]
Select or set (if
val
is specified) the
coredumpsize
resource limit.
A value of 0 disables core dumps.
-d [val
]
Select or set (if
val
is specified) the
datasize
resource limit.
-f [val
]
Select or set the
filesize
resource limit.
-l [val
]
Select or set the
memorylocked
resource limit.
-m [val
]
Select or set the
memoryuse
size limit.
-n [val
]
Select or set the
openfiles
resource limit.
The system-wide limit on the maximum number of
open files per process can be viewed by examining the
kern.maxfilesperprocsysctl(8)
variable.
The total number of simultaneously open files in the entire
system is limited to the value displayed by the
kern.maxfilessysctl(8)
variable.
-s [val
]
Select or set the
stacksize
resource limit.
-t [val
]
Select or set the
cputime
resource limit.
-u [val
]
Select or set the
maxproc
resource limit.
The system-wide limit on the maximum number of processes
allowed per UID can be viewed by examining the
kern.maxprocperuidsysctl(8)
variable.
The maximum number of processes that can be running simultaneously
in the entire system is limited to the value of the
kern.maxprocsysctl(8)
variable.
-v [val
]
Select or set the
virtualmem
resource limit.
This limit encompasses the entire VM space for the user process
and is inclusive of text, data, bss, stack,
brk(2),
sbrk(2)
and
mmap(2)Ns'd
space.
Valid values for
val
in the above set of options consist of either the
string
``infinity
''
``inf
''
``unlimited
''
or
``unlimit
''
for an infinite (or kernel-defined maximum)
limit, or a numeric value optionally followed by a suffix.
Values which relate to size default to a value in bytes, or one of the
following suffixes may be used as a multiplier:
b
512 byte blocks.
k
kilobytes (1024 bytes).
m
megabytes (1024*1024 bytes).
g
gigabytes.
t
terabytes.
The
cputime
resource defaults to a number of seconds, but a multiplier may be
used, and as with size values, multiple values separated by a valid
suffix are added together:
s
seconds.
m
minutes.
h
hours.
d
days.
w
weeks.
y
365 day years.
-E
Cause
to completely ignore the environment it inherits.
-a
Force all resource settings to be displayed even if
other specific resource settings have been specified.
For example, if you wish to disable core dumps when starting up
the Usenet News system, but wish to set all other resource settings
as well that apply to the
``news
''
account, you might use:
"eval `limits -U news -aBec 0`"
As with the
setrlimit(2)
call, only the superuser may raise process
``hard''
resource limits.
Non-root users may, however, lower them or change
``soft''
resource limits
within to any value below the hard limit.
When invoked to execute a program, the failure of
to raise a hard limit is considered a fatal error.
EXIT STATUS
The
utility
exits with
EXIT_FAILURE
if usage is incorrect in any way; i.e., an invalid
option, or set/display options are selected in the same invocation,
-e
is used when running a program, etc.
When run in display or eval mode,
exits with a status of
EXIT_SUCCESS
When run in command mode and execution of the command succeeds, the exit status
will be whatever the executed program returns.
The
utility does not handle commands with equal
(`='
)
signs in their
names, for obvious reasons.
When eval output is selected, the
/proc
file system must be installed
and mounted for the shell to be correctly determined, and therefore
output syntax correct for the running shell.
The default output is valid for
sh(1),
so this means that any
usage of
in eval mode prior mounting
/proc
may only occur in standard bourne
shell scripts.
The
utility makes no effort to ensure that resource settings emitted or displayed
are valid and settable by the current user.
Only a superuser account may raise hard limits, and when doing so
the
Fx kernel will silently lower limits to values less than
specified if the values given are too high.