this will not do the trick.

in “man bash”:

A hard limit cannot be increased by a non-root user once it is
set; a soft limit may be increased up to the value of the hard limits.

So you can use "ulimit -H -a” (shell, not C-shell) to print out the hard limits.



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> On Nov 5, 2015, at 5:51 PM, Andrew Melo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> That being said, shouldn't
>
> (ulimit -u unlimited ; xrootd)
>
> do the trick?
>
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