commands.sh

prlimit

linux

Get or set process resource soft and hard limits. Given a process ID and one or more resources, prlimit tries to retrieve and/or modify the limits.

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Options (2)

-p, --pidboolean

Display limit values for all current resources of a specified process

Example: prlimit {{[-p|--pid]}} {{pid_number}}
-nboolean

Run a command with a custom number of open files limit

Example: prlimit {{[-n|--nofile=]}}{{10}} {{command}}

Examples (3)

Display limit values for all current resources for the running parent process

Display limit values for all current resources of a specified process

prlimit [-p|--pid] pid_number

Run a command with a custom number of open files limit

prlimit [-n|--nofile=]10 command
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