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  [[/etc/security/]]limits.conf
 
  [[/etc/security/]]limits.conf
 
 
@users hard [[nofile]] 524288
 
 
 
 
[[orasep]]  [[soft]] [[memlock]] [[unlimited]]
 
orasep  hard memlock unlimited
 
 
 
 
 
== Example ==
 
<pre>
 
# /etc/security/limits.conf
 
#
 
#Each line describes a limit for a user in the form:
 
#
 
#<domain>        <type>  <item>  <value>
 
#
 
#Where:
 
#<domain> can be:
 
#        - a user name
 
#        - a group name, with @group syntax
 
#        - the wildcard *, for default entry
 
#        - the wildcard %, can be also used with %group syntax,
 
#                for maxlogin limit
 
#        - NOTE: group and wildcard limits are not applied to root.
 
#          To apply a limit to the root user, <domain> must be
 
#          the literal username root.
 
#
 
#<type> can have the two values:
 
#        - "soft" for enforcing the soft limits
 
#        - "hard" for enforcing hard limits
 
#
 
#<item> can be one of the following:
 
#        - core - limits the core file size (KB)
 
#        - data - max data size (KB)
 
#        - fsize - maximum filesize (KB)
 
#        - memlock - max locked-in-memory address space (KB)
 
#        - nofile - max number of open file descriptors
 
#        - rss - max resident set size (KB)
 
#        - stack - max stack size (KB)
 
#        - cpu - max CPU time (MIN)
 
#        - nproc - max number of processes
 
#        - as - address space limit (KB)
 
#        - maxlogins - max number of logins for this user
 
#        - maxsyslogins - max number of logins on the system
 
#        - priority - the priority to run user process with
 
#        - locks - max number of file locks the user can hold
 
#        - sigpending - max number of pending signals
 
#        - msgqueue - max memory used by POSIX message queues (bytes)
 
#        - nice - max nice priority allowed to raise to values: [-20, 19]
 
#        - rtprio - max realtime priority
 
#        - chroot - change root to directory (Debian-specific)
 
#
 
#<domain>      <type>  <item>        <value>
 
#
 
 
#*              soft    core            0
 
#root            hard    core            100000
 
#*              hard    rss            10000
 
#@student        hard    nproc          20
 
#@faculty        soft    nproc          20
 
#@faculty        hard    nproc          50
 
#ftp            hard    nproc          0
 
#ftp            -      chroot          /ftp
 
#@student        -      maxlogins      4
 
 
# End of file
 
</pre>
 
 
== Related ==
 
* [[open files]]
 
* <code>[[prlimit]]</code>
 
 
== See also ==
 
* {{prlimit}}
 
* {{Linux Kernel}}
 
 
[[Category:Linux Kernel]]
 

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