Re: "Out of memory" errors..

"Lim Berger" <straightfwd007(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I think I have located the problem. It is in "/etc/profile" where some
> ulimits are added. This is the offending text, I think:

> #********************* cPanel Added Limit Protections -- BEGIN

> #unlimit so we can run the whoami
> ulimit -n 4096 -u 14335 -m unlimited -d unlimited -s 8192 -c 1000000
> -v unlimited 2>/dev/null

> LIMITUSER=$USER
> if [ -e "/usr/bin/whoami" ]; then
> LIMITUSER=`/usr/bin/whoami`
> fi
> if [ "$LIMITUSER" != "root" ]; then
> ulimit -n 100 -u 20 -m 200000 -d 200000 -s 8192 -c 200000 -v
> 200000 2>/dev/null
> else
> ulimit -n 4096 -u 14335 -m unlimited -d unlimited -s 8192 -c
> 1000000 -v unlimited 2>/dev/null
> fi
> #********************* cPanel Added Limit Protections -- END

> I am not much of a shell scripter so I am afraid of breaking this,

My advice: remove the whole block that you've quoted. After that, find
out what "cPanel" is, and get rid of that entire piece of brain-damage.
There might be some merit to restrictions as draconian as the above on
an overloaded multi-user machine, but there is no call for anything to
install restrictions like that behind the back of the machine's admin.

regards, tom lane