.TH softlimit 8
.SH NAME
softlimit \- runs another program with new resource limits.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B softlimit
[
.I opts
]
.I child
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I opts
is a series of getopt-style options.
.I child
consists of one or more arguments. 

.B softlimit
sets soft resource limits as specified by
.IR opts .
It then runs
.IR child .
.SH OPTIONS
In each of the following
.IB opts ,
.I n
may be =, indicating that the soft limit should be set equal to the hard
limit. 

.I opts
.B controlling memory use: 

.TP
.B \-m \fIn
Same as
.B \-d
.I n
.B \-s
.I n
.B \-l
.I n
.B \-a
.IR n .
.TP
.B \-d \fIn
Limit the data segment per process to
.I n
bytes.
.TP
.B \-s \fIn
Limit the stack segment per process to
.I n
bytes.
.TP 
.B \-l \fIn
Limit the locked physical pages per process to
.I n
bytes. This option has no effect on some operating systems.
.TP
.B \-a \fIn
Limit the total of all segments per process to
.I n
bytes. This option has no effect on some operating systems. 
.TP
.B \-o \fIn
Limit the number of open file descriptors per process to
.IR n .
This option has no effect on some operating systems. 
.TP
.B \-p \fIn
Limit the number of processes per uid to
.IR n .
.P
.I opts
.B controlling file sizes: 
.TP
.B \-f \fIn
Limit output file sizes to
.I n
bytes.
.TP
.B \-c \fIn
Limit core file sizes to
.I n
bytes.
.P
.B Efficiency
.I opts:
.TP
.B \-r \fIn
Limit the resident set size to
.I n
bytes. This limit is not enforced unless physical memory is full.
.TP
.B \-t \fIn
Limit the CPU time to
.I n
seconds. This limit is not enforced except that the process receives a
SIGXCPU signal after
.I n
seconds. 
.SH SEE ALSO
supervise(8),
svc(8),
svok(8),
svstat(8),
svscanboot(8),
svscan(8),
readproctitle(8),
fghack(8),  
pgrphack(8),
multilog(8),
tai64n(8),
tai64nlocal(8),
setuidgid(8),
envuidgid(8),
envdir(8),
setlock(8)

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