Re: Ans: Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?

[Steve Hsieh <steveh@eecs.umich.edu>]

I don't think so.  My 1GB problem was when using a hamm system.
Commenting out ULIMIT in login.defs was the only way to raise the hard
limit on all accounts from what I could see.


On 27 Jan 1998, Kirk Hilliard wrote:

> Steve Hsieh <steveh@eecs.umich.edu> writes:
> 
> > To anyone interested in this --
> > 
> > The problem was not related to the kernel, but to ulimit.  
> > /etc/login.defs has ULIMIT set to 1GB for some reason.   However, it is
> > not clear to me why some accounts use this value, while other accounts
> > ignore it.  In any case, if you comment out the ULIMIT line, all accounts
> > no longer have the 1GB restriction and you can create files up to the real
> > 2GB limit.
> 
> Aha!  Then this might be fixed in hamm:
> 
> On my machine running bo:
>   $ ulimit
>   1048576
> 
> On my machine running hamm:
>   $ ulimit
>   unlimited
> 
> I ran out of space at 1GB on the bo machine, but I don't have space to
> check this on the hamm machine.  Did anyone here run into a 1GB limit
> on a hamm machine?
> 
> Kirk Hilliard
> 
> P.S.  There doesn't seem to be sufficient difference between
>       /etc/login.defs on the two machines to account for this.
> 
> 
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