Re: Memory Usage and OpenBSD

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:18 AM, Anton Maksimenkov <anton200(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 2010/1/28 Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>>> related to maximum per-process data space.  I don't know BSD very well
>>> so I can't say if datasize is the only such value for BSD, but it'd be
>>> worth checking.  (Hmm, on OS X which is at least partly BSDish, I see
>>> -m and -v in addition to -d, so I'm suspicious OpenBSD might have these
>>> concepts too.)
>>
>> Isn't the usual advice here is to log the ulimit setting from the pg
>> startup script so you can what it really is for the user at the moment
>> they're starting up the db? (I think some guy named Tom mentioned
>> doing that before.)
>
> I think that "su" is enough:

In previous discussions it was mentioned that startup scripts often
inherit different settings from the default shell of a user, hence the
need to check it from within the startup script.