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Home > Forums > MIS/IT > Operating Systems - UNIX based > IBM: AIX Forum

Discrepancy between ulimit command and /etc/security/limits settings.

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kenwalters (MIS)
9 Jul 12 17:24
I have set the stack limit in /etc/security/limits for a user to 4194304, but if I su to that user and perform a ulimit -a, stack = 2097152. Is this normal? Do I need to set a higher hard limit on stack?
This is in AIX 6.1 TL6 SP3.
TSch (TechnicalUser)
10 Jul 12 2:49
Hi kenwalters,

I'm not 100% sure but I think this could be normal ...

In the /etc/security/limits file it says:

CODE

"soft stack segment size in blocks"

(Note: It says "blocks" here)

Running ulimit -a it says:

CODE

stack(kbytes)

(Note: It says "kbytes" here)

Regards,
Thomas
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