Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hey there,

I am in the process of fining tuning an application. Its running on a specific user. By increasing the ulimit how can i optimize the application to perform well?
Also how exactly ulimit works?

Thanks to all who responds,
Charith
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

You're looking at the wrong thing here. Ulimit is about preventing processes from abusing the system by taking more resources than they need, should have or can be spared by other work. These are error conditions usually met with in development where a process starts doing something unexpected. Tuning is about dealing with a workload behaving normally so that it makes efficient use of resources. A tuned workload continues to run. When a ulimit is exceeded typically the process is terminated.

HTH

Jim Lane
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