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32 .\" @(#)getrlimit.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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42 .Nd control maximum system resource consumption
50 .Fn getrlimit "int resource" "struct rlimit *rlp"
52 .Fn setrlimit "int resource" "const struct rlimit *rlp"
54 Limits on the consumption of system resources by the current process
55 and each process it creates may be obtained with the
57 call, and set with the
63 parameter is one of the following:
64 .Bl -tag -width RLIMIT_FSIZEAA
66 The maximum size (in bytes) of a process' total available memory.
67 If this limit is exceeded, the
71 functions will fail and
75 Moreover, the automatic stack growth will fail as well.
77 The largest size (in bytes)
79 file that may be created.
81 The maximum amount of cpu time (in seconds) to be used by
84 The maximum size (in bytes) of the data segment for a process;
85 this defines how far a program may extend its break with the
89 The largest size (in bytes) file that may be created.
91 The maximum size (in bytes) which a process may lock into memory
96 The maximum number of open files for this process.
98 The maximum number of simultaneous processes for this user id.
100 The maximum size (in bytes) to which a process's resident set size may
102 This imposes a limit on the amount of physical memory to be given to
103 a process; if memory is tight, the system will prefer to take memory
104 from processes that are exceeding their declared resident set size.
106 The maximum size (in bytes) of the stack segment for a process;
107 this defines how far a program's stack segment may be extended.
108 Stack extension is performed automatically by the system.
110 The maximum size (in bytes) of socket buffer usage for this user.
111 This limits the amount of network memory, and hence the amount of
112 mbufs, that this user may hold at any time.
113 .It Li RLIMIT_POSIXLOCK
114 The maximum number of POSIX-type advisory-mode locks available to
118 A resource limit is specified as a soft limit and a hard limit.
119 When a soft limit is exceeded a process may receive a signal (for example, if
120 the cpu time or file size is exceeded), but it will be allowed to
121 continue execution until it reaches the hard limit (or modifies
125 structure is used to specify the hard and soft limits on a resource,
126 .Bd -literal -offset indent
128 rlim_t rlim_cur; /* current (soft) limit */
129 rlim_t rlim_max; /* maximum value for rlim_cur */
133 Only the super-user may raise the maximum limits.
134 Other users may only alter
136 within the range from 0 to
138 or (irreversibly) lower
143 value for a limit is defined as
146 Because this information is stored in the per-process information,
147 this system call must be executed directly by the shell if it
148 is to affect all future processes created by the shell;
150 is thus a built-in command to
153 The system refuses to extend the data or stack space when the limits
154 would be exceeded in the normal way: a
156 call fails if the data space limit is reached.
157 When the stack limit is reached, the process receives
160 if this signal is not
161 caught by a handler using the signal stack, this signal
162 will kill the process.
164 A file I/O operation that would create a file larger than the process'
165 soft limit will cause the write to fail and a signal
168 generated; this normally terminates the process, but may be caught.
169 When the soft cpu time limit is exceeded, a signal
182 The address specified for
186 The limit specified to
189 raised the maximum limit value, and the caller is not the super-user.
202 function call appeared in