On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Mauro Santos <registo.mailling@gmail.com> wrote:
Are you sure you haven't personalized that?
Yes. For a good reason: what little I knew about ulimit (from Gentoo) was forgotten, and it only came to mind now that I was bitten. 'ulimit -v' says unlimited
here and I haven't changed that config from arch's default.
OK, I have one system like you and another one with the limits I posted. I suppose it has to do with the time the systems were installed.
'ulimit -u unlimited' might be a bad idea, if anything goes haywire and starts spawning threads it can crash your machine very quickly (think fork bomb), even the default value seems to be too much for normal usage.
Agreed. But how is one supposed to know how to choose sane values? JA