[ale] user limits

[Warren Myers]

side note: Itankum may be somewhat iffy, but it's the exclusive
platform for HP-UX going forward. HP has dropped the PA-RISC
architecture in favor of IA64.

WMM

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:23 PM,  <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:
> For what it's worth, this behavior is native to OpenVMS...it's just too bad that the OS is limited to Itanium and Itanium's future is...iffy.
>
> - Jeff
>
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
>> xmessage is the way to do it. Now to find a daemon that can do the deed
>> and deliver an intelligent message....
>>
>> or write one which is looking like the real solution. Need to find
>> _where_ the soft limit signal is written (/var/log/message? STDOUT?)
>>
>> On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 13:55 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
>> > Launch everything via a script that checks the limit and then issues
>> > an xmessage[1]?
>> >
>> > [1] -- http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/xmessage/
>> >
>> > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > When a system uses pam, the file (typically) /etc/security/limits.conf
>> > > can control limits for things like resident set size, stack size, number
>> > > processes, login count, etc.
>> > >
>> > > What happens when a user hits a soft limit? A hard limit means the
>> > > operation is not completed and/or fails.
>> > >
>> > > I'm looking for a way to notify users that they are pushing their luck
>> > > opening another (eg - firefox) application as they are running out of
>> > > ram.
>> > >
>> > > Jim Kinney
>> > >
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