How to set USER LIMITS (ulimit) on HP-UX | Make the ulimit settings permanent | kctune related to the User Limit settings

ulimit - 

Use the command ulimit.

See more on man ulimit


time(seconds) -- use -t option 

file(blocks) ---- use -f option 

data(kbytes) -- use -d option 

stack(kbytes) -- use -s option 

memory(kbytes) -- use -m option 

coredump(blocks) -- use -c option 

nofiles(descriptors)


To make these settings permanent make sure that you add these to /etc/profile or the .profile file in the HOME of the user.


In case you need to increase the maximum values of the ULIMIT parameters. you can well think of changing the kctune values like

maxdsiz

maxssiz

or also the 64 bit kernel tunable counterparts of the above.