ulimit - is a built-in Linux shell command that allows viewing or limiting system

resource amounts that individual users consume

Syntax

$ ulimit [flags][limit]

To set the physical memory size in kilobytes

$ ulimit -m 10000

To view the detailed soft limits for the current user

$ ulimit -Sa

To view the detailed hard limits for the current user

$ ulimit -Ha

To find the resource amount that the current user has access to use

$ ulimit

To get a detailed report with all resource limits for the current user

$ ulimit -a

To limit the process number to 10

$ ulimit -u 10

To set the maximum file size that a user can make

$ ulimit -f 100

To limit maximum virtual memory

$ ulimit -v 1500

To limits the number of simultaneously opened files

$ ulimit -n 10

To display maximum users process

$ ulimit -u

To show maximum memory size limit

$ ulimit -v

To display the Hard limit

$ ulimit -Hn

To display Soft Limit

$ ulimit -Sn

To check out the max scheduling priority of the current user

$ ulimit -e

To check the maximum stack size of the current user

$ ulimit -s

To report the time each process is allowed to run

$ ulimit -t

To check out how many file descriptors a process

$ ulimit -n

To check out the help options

$ ulimit --help

regards,

T.Dhanasekar