On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Sjoerd Mullender
Limits are inherited from the parent process.
Wierd. Still no luck. What's your OS? Maybe Ubuntu has another limit I need to set. $ ps x PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 17328 pts/4 S 0:00 su - mero 17335 pts/4 R 0:00 -su 31201 pts/4 R+ 0:00 ps x $ ulimit -a time(cpu-seconds) unlimited file(blocks) unlimited coredump(blocks) 0 data(kbytes) 409600 stack(kbytes) 8192 lockedmem(kbytes) 64 memory(kbytes) unlimited nofiles(descriptors) 1024 processes unlimited vmemory(kbytes) unlimited flocks unlimited $ merovingian $ In another terminal, run mclient to start up database. I run mclient as a different user, if that matters. Then: $ tail /var/log/merovingian.log 2010-03-25 13:37:02 MSG aoflash[31250]: # MonetDB server v5.16.2, based on kernel v1.34.2 2010-03-25 13:37:02 MSG aoflash[31250]: # Serving database 'aoflash', using 1 thread 2010-03-25 13:37:02 MSG aoflash[31250]: # Compiled for i686-pc-linux-gnu/32bit with 32bit OIDs dynamically linked 2010-03-25 13:37:02 MSG aoflash[31250]:# Detected 481.391 MiB (504774656 bytes) main-memory. Still at 481 MiB. m