[SCore-users] Best way to increase the stacksize limit on MPI jobs?

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Nick Birkett wrote:

> Does anyone know if it is possible for an mpi processes to increase the stack 
> size limits ? 

No process can increase its own stack size, from what I know. Possibly
root-owned ones might, but this is not the case here.

> ulimit sets the stack size for a shell, so is not probably not what is
> wanted.

On RedHat, the file /etc/security/limits.conf read from PAM is used to set 
these values transparently to the user.

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