farhad@corwin.usc.edu (Farhad Khansefid) (02/02/88)
Hi, I have been happily using sco 386 xenix (2.2.1) on an Acer 1100 with 3Meg memory (minus 128k used internally), 80 Meg Miniscribe HD, a Digiboard com/8s multi serial port and tape drive for quite some time now. Recently, when logged in as root, i tried to copy the contents of current directory to a /safe directory by simply typing: cp * /safe the cp command copied all the files until it reached a 4.9Meg file and then the system hung. I rebooted, cleaned up the file system (fsck) and retried, only to get the same result. My question is why? - do i need to play with the ulimit! - is it because filesize>max available memory! - is there a bug in cp. if so, anyone has the fix? I think only the last case should result in a dead system. Speaking of bugs, is there an (un)official bug list for sco xenix? I should mention that I am very happy so far with the performance of the above system and the 386 xenix. Please reply directly to me ( farhad@usc.corwin.edu ) or if you think your response is of general interest, please post since I follow this group closely.
davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) (02/09/88)
In article <6649@oberon.USC.EDU> farhad@corwin.usc.edu (Farhad Khansefid) writes: | [...] | Recently, when logged in as root, i tried to copy the contents of | current directory to a /safe directory by simply typing: | | cp * /safe | | the cp command copied all the files until it reached a 4.9Meg file and then | the system hung. I rebooted, cleaned up the file system (fsck) and retried, | only to get the same result. My question is why? | | - do i need to play with the ulimit! sure do. Default is about 2MB (and I wouldn't set it much higher unless you're *sure* you need to and won't get bitten. | - is it because filesize>max available memory! no | - is there a bug in cp. if so, anyone has the fix? not really a bug. If the /safe directory is in the same place as /tmp you also may have run the system out of tmp space, a problem not directly related to ulimit. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
skip@skipnyc.UUCP (Skip Gilbrech) (02/10/88)
In article <9464@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: >| - do i need to play with the ulimit! > sure do. Default is about 2MB (and I wouldn't set it much higher >unless you're *sure* you need to and won't get bitten. Quoting from SCO Xenix Sys V 2.2.1 Release Notes pp 3.14, p. 27, "The default ULIMIT has been raised for the XENIX System V Operating System Release 2.2. It is now 2,097,152 blocks (1 gigabyte)." You can lower the limit with a ULIMIT=[512 byte blocks] statement in /etc/default/login (it works -- I tried it..). -- Skip Gilbrech UUCP: uunet!pwcmrd!skip PaineWebber, NYC attmail!skipnyc!skip