[olug] Linux mess

[Mike Peterson]

I ran ulimit -a and most user limits on Redhat 7.2 are at unlimited.
I ran my Benchmark I/O program as a user other than root that I created and
the program stopped at a point that the ulimit says it should have went
past.
The home file system was fine and accessible, but the kernel was still
messed up so bad that I had to press reset instead of CTRL-ALT-DEL or typing
in reboot or shutdown -h or shutdown -r.
I added more display statements and then the program worked better without
changed any of the existing code.
The program is written in C.

Has anyone else had this problem with Linux 2.4x kernels or Redhat 7.2 under
normal use?

I have a production box that I have not ran my program on yet that has been
running for 22 days without a problem.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Pfile" <daniel at pfile.net>
To: <olug at bstc.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] Linux mess


> --On Tuesday, December 18, 2001 6:36 PM -0800 Mike Peterson
> <mpeterson at charles.omhcoxmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I will see if the program even runs as a regular user and get back to
the
> > list with the results.
> > Thanks for the input.
>
> You may want to take a look at your limits.conf file before you do that.
> It's in /etc/security/limits.conf on my debian systems. I don't really use
> anything other than debian tho. Basicly, you can limit a user's ability to
> destroy the system even more than it allready is limited. Things like core
> size, stack size, file size, etc.
>
> -- Daniel
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