RE: ULIMIT setting: Urgent Please Help

Viraj,
 I do not recall if you need to rebuild the kernel to make the new ulimit setting effective. Probably not, please check the system docs to make sure? Is the ulimit set in any of the profiles for the user id (/etc/profile, or .profile)? Also, have you tried to change it after logging in as oracle8 user (ulimit -f <OS blocks>)? It could that the ULIMIT= in the /etc/default/login is the system wide upper limit for ulimit value and you may still have to use the ulimit -f command to change its value for a user session. Again, you may have to check the man page or docs to figure out the correct procedure to make this work. I used Unixware quite a while ago and unfortunately do not recall the exact steps.

Regards,

• Kirti Deshpande Verizon Information Services http://www.superpages.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Viraj Luthra [SMTP:viraj999_at_lycos.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 2:20 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: ULIMIT setting: Urgent Please Help
>
> Kirti,
>
> I have used ULIMIT=unlimited, ULIMIT=5000000 and so on, with the same
> results. After doing this change, I reboot the machine and then I log in
> as the user, oracle8 under which I will be installing Oracle. But when I
> log in as user, oracle8, and type ulimit, it gives me 2097152. But oracle
> installer wants the ulimit to change to 2113674 which is higher than the
> prev. figure.
>
> Therefore I do not know know how to raise the limit to unlimited.
>
> I can do this under root prompt, but as soon as I exit out from this shell
> (means changes are not global), the ulimit reverts to a lower limit for
> the oracle8 user.
>
> Can you please suggest some parameter(s) in kernel, using scoadmin, which
> will then prompt for the kernel re-build and hence make the ulimit as
> unlimit permanent.
>
> Also may be there is some way I can raise the ulimit for a particular user
> (in my case oracle8) from root?
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>
> Raja
> --
>
> On Wed, 23 May 2001 21:20:20
> Deshpande, Kirti wrote:
> >Hi Viraj,
> >Have you tried ULIMIT=5000000 in the /etc/default/login file? That would
> >allow you to access files up to about 2.5GB in size with ulimit high
> enough
> >to solve your current problem. It's been a while since I worked with
> >Unixware, but I think it does support large file (over 2GB).
> >A korn shell is sometimes referred to as a posix shell as most newer
> >versions of ksh conform to the POSIX standards. Some UNIX versions have
> >'psh' linked to 'ksh' or just a copy of 'ksh' (IBM AIX for example).
> >
> >HTH,
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >- Kirti Deshpande
> > Verizon Information Services
> > http://www.superpages.com
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Viraj Luthra [SMTP:viraj999_at_lycos.com]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 7:29 PM
> >> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >> Subject: Re: ULIMIT setting: Urgent Please Help
> >>
> >> Lisa,
> >>
> >> What do you mean by changing to posix shell? How does one do that? I
> know
> >> of tcsh, sh, ksh, etc shells, but did not know posix shell existed.
> well I
> >> tried to execute posix any way and it said
> >>
> >> /bin/posix: Permission denied.
> >>
> >> I only installed the SCO Unixware 7.1.1, so I can do any thing there,
> and
> >> it is our test machine so no hassles, please help further, any one.
> >>
> >> Thanks and Regards,
> >>
> >> Raja
> >> --
> >>
> >> On Wed, 23 May 2001 09:26:00
> >> Lisa Yates wrote:
> >> >
> >> >Raja,
> >> >
> >> >I had a similar problem, but when I changed my shell to the posix
> shell,
> >> >then it would let me do the ulimit unlimited command. Hope this helps.
> >> >
> >> >Lisa
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >On Wed, 23 May 2001, Viraj Luthra wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hello all,
> >> >>
> >> >> I am trying to install oracle 8.0.5.0.0 on SCO Unix Ware 7.1.1.
> >> >>
> >> >> While trying to install Oracle, the Oracle Installer bombs out,
> because
> >> it says that my ulimit is not high enough. It needs the ulimit to be
> >> 2113674. But my hard limit of ulimit is 2097152. This figure is less
> than
> >> what Oracel needs.
> >> >>
> >> >> Now I have tried to put ULIMIT=unlimited in the /etc/default/login
> file
> >> but this is of no use. Also I have tried to set
> >> >>
> >> >> ulimit unlimited
> >> >>
> >> >> but at the unix prompt I get the error that, the value is exceeded
> and
> >> I cannot set the value as unlimited.
> >> >>
> >> >> Now can you please help me in trying to set the value as unlimited
> some
> >> how so that the oracle installer does not get object, and I can install
> >> the product.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks and Regards,
> >> >>
> >> >> Raja
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
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