Files > 4MB

[Richard M. Mathews]

cedman at golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) writes:

>Now this would be really funny. All versions of AIX I had the lack of
>pleasure of having to use so far had quite the opposite problem:

>        No files larger that 4 MBytes

(The referenced message had "Followup-To: comp.unix.aix", but it would be
unfair for this incorrect claim to go uncorrected in comp.unix.large)

AIX (at least the versions with with I am familiar) has a default ulimit of
4 MB.  This can be changed on a per system, per user, or per process basis
(but, of course, only a root process can increase its limit).  Ulimit goes
way, way back in the history of Unix and is not specific to AIX.

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