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Re: memory leak in bash only during boot up in Bash-3.2.48

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On 12/22/18 3:47 AM, ABHISHEK PALIWAL wrote:
> Hi Chet,
> 
>>What is the hard limit on the number of processes for a process started in
>>this environment? (The value of `ulimit -n'.)
> 
> Here are the Hard and soft limits for open files and max user processes.
> root@localhost:/root> ulimit -Hn
> 1024
> root@localhost:/root> ulimit -Hu
> 516046
> root@localhost:/root> ulimit -Su
> 1024
> root@localhost:/root> ulimit -S> 1024

These are probably not the same values that are available to processes run
as services.

Look at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2018-12/msg00084.html
for a discussion of the issue and a fix.

Chet

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Re: memory leak in bash only during boot up in Bash-3.2.48 Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-12-26 10:55 -0500

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