RAppArmor (version 1.0.0)

rlimit_nofile: Limit file descriptors

Description

Specifies a value one greater than the maximum file descriptor number that can be opened by this process.

Usage

rlimit_nofile(hardlim, softlim = hardlim, pid = 0,
    verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

hardlim

number greater than 1

softlim

number greater than 1

pid

id of the target process

verbose

print some C output (TRUE/FALSE)

Details

Specifies a value one greater than the maximum file descriptor number that can be opened by this process. Attempts (open(2), pipe(2), dup(2), etc.) to exceed this limit yield the error EMFILE. (Historically, this limit was named RLIMIT_OFILE on BSD.)

References

Jeroen Ooms (2013). The RAppArmor Package: Enforcing Security Policies in {R} Using Dynamic Sandboxing on Linux. Journal of Statistical Software, 55(7), 1-34. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v55/i07/.

Ubuntu Manpage: getrlimit, setrlimit - get/set resource limits. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man2/getrlimit.2.html.

See Also

Other rlimit: rlimit_as, rlimit_core, rlimit_cpu, rlimit_data, rlimit_fsize, rlimit_memlock, rlimit_msgqueue, rlimit_nice, rlimit_nproc, rlimit_rtprio, rlimit_rttime, rlimit_sigpending, rlimit_stack

Examples

#load lib
library(RAppArmor)

#current limit
rlimit_as();

#set hard limit
rlimit_as(1e9);

#set separate hard and soft limit. 
rlimit_as(1e9, 1e8);

#soft limits can be elevated
rlimit_as(soft = 1e7);
rlimit_as(soft = 1e9);

#set other limits
rlimit_core(1e9);
rlimit_data(1e9);
rlimit_fsize(1e9);
rlimit_memlock(10000);
rlimit_msgqueue(1e5);
rlimit_nofile(10);
rlimit_nproc(100);
rlimit_rttime(1e9);
rlimit_sigpending(1e4);
rlimit_stack(1000);
rlimit_cpu(60);