Re: human-friendly ulimit values?

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/21/24 11:43 AM, Christian Convey wrote:
> When setting memory-size limits via "ulimits", users have to manually
> convert from their intuitive units.
>
> E.g., for limiting virtual memory to 8 gigabytes, the invocation is "ulimit
> -v 8388608", rather than something like "ulimit -v 8gb".
>
> If I were to submit a patch for this, is there any chance of it getting
> accepted?

I'd look at it, but I have to ask: is the only reason to do this to avoid
the ulimit blocksize scaling factor? `ulimit -a' will tell you the scaling
factor, but there isn't a way to get it programmatically. Otherwise, you
can always use $(( 1024 * 1024 * 8 )).

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