Hi,

I'm running tomcat-4.0.5 on openbsd 3.2 and if I run the tomcat process
as user "root" I never get any complaints that there isn't enough memory.
The problem is if I run another tomcat process (on a different port) as
another non-root user, tomcat complains that it is out of memory for certain
applications. This doesn't happen if I run both instances as "root".

Is there somewhere I can configure the amount of memory a user or
process can use?

Thanks,

-Tom

* tom <tom@e.n.l.u.n.a.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running tomcat-4.0.5 on openbsd 3.2 and if I run the tomcat process
> as user "root" I never get any complaints that there isn't enough memory.
> The problem is if I run another tomcat process (on a different port) as
> another non-root user, tomcat complains that it is out of memory for certain
> applications. This doesn't happen if I run both instances as "root".
>
> Is there somewhere I can configure the amount of memory a user or
> process can use?

I don't know about openbsd, but in FreeBSD /etc/login.conf sounds like what
you're looking for. You might try the man pages for login.conf(5).

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In comp.unix.admin tom <tom@e.n.l.u.n.a.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running tomcat-4.0.5 on openbsd 3.2 and if I run the tomcat process
> as user "root" I never get any complaints that there isn't enough memory.
> The problem is if I run another tomcat process (on a different port) as
> another non-root user, tomcat complains that it is out of memory for certain
> applications. This doesn't happen if I run both instances as "root".
>
> Is there somewhere I can configure the amount of memory a user or
> process can use?

Not sure whether it's available on openbsd, but ulimit on Solaris (and
elsewhere?) can set file descriptor limits, data segment sizes, etc.
I've used it to increase resources for a certain Legato Networker
utility that would crap out halfway through until I raised some limits.

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