Solaris 2.6 pfiles ((current rlimit: ...)

[Jesse Waters]

in pfiles output the second line reads
"Current rlimit: 1024 file descriptors"

What does rlimit mean? Can't find man page on it.
Soft limit 64, Hard limit 1024

[Chris Thompson]

In article <afvfdo$5us$1...@f1n1.spenet.wfu.edu>,

Jesse Waters <jcwa...@wfubmc.edu> wrote:
>in pfiles output the second line reads
>"Current rlimit: 1024 file descriptors"
>
>What does rlimit mean? Can't find man page on it.

$ man -k rlimit
getrlimit getrlimit (2) - control maximum system resource consumption
setrlimit getrlimit (2) - control maximum system resource consumption

Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 [at] cam.ac.uk

[Tony Walton - Sun Enterprise Services UK]

Jesse Waters wrote:
>
> in pfiles output the second line reads
> "Current rlimit: 1024 file descriptors"
>
> What does rlimit mean?

Resource limit.

> Can't find man page on it.

$ man -k rlimit

getrlimit getrlimit (2) - control maximum system resource
consumption
setrlimit getrlimit (2) - control maximum system resource
consumption

[gs]etrlimit are the system calls which the ulimit command actually uses
to manipulate the things that ulimit manipulates.

> Soft limit 64, Hard limit 1024

The rlimit reported by pfiles is the current, ie the soft, limit. It
seems the pfiles output you're quoting at the top doesn't refer to the
same process as the soft and hard limits you quote later.

$ pfiles $$|grep rlimit
Current rlimit: 256 file descriptors

$ ulimit -n;ulimit -Hn
256
65536

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Tony Walton

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