Oracle server limits.conf

# /etc/security/limits.conf

#

#Each line describes a limit for a user in the form:

#

#<domain>        <type>  <item>  <value>

#

#Where:

#<domain> can be:

#        - an user name

#        - a group name, with @group syntax

#        - the wildcard *, for default entry

#        - the wildcard %, can be also used with %group syntax,

#                 for maxlogin limit

#

#<type> can have the two values:

#        - "soft" for enforcing the soft limits

#        - "hard" for enforcing hard limits

#

#<item> can be one of the following:

#        - core - limits the core file size (KB)

#        - data - max data size (KB)

#        - fsize - maximum filesize (KB)

#        - memlock - max locked-in-memory address space (KB)

#        - nofile - max number of open files

#        - rss - max resident set size (KB)

#        - stack - max stack size (KB)

#        - cpu - max CPU time (MIN)

#        - nproc - max number of processes

#        - as - address space limit (KB)

#        - maxlogins - max number of logins for this user

#        - maxsyslogins - max number of logins on the system

#        - priority - the priority to run user process with

#        - locks - max number of file locks the user can hold

#        - sigpending - max number of pending signals

#        - msgqueue - max memory used by POSIX message queues (bytes)

#        - nice - max nice priority allowed to raise to values: [-20, 19]

#        - rtprio - max realtime priority

#

#<domain>      <type>  <item>         <value>

#

#*               soft    core            0

#*               hard    rss             10000

#@student        hard    nproc           20

#@faculty        soft    nproc           20

#@faculty        hard    nproc           50

#ftp             hard    nproc           0

#@student        -       maxlogins       4

oracle           soft    nproc   2047

oracle           hard    nproc   16384

oracle           soft    nofile  1024

oracle           hard    nofile  65536

oracle          soft    memlock 3145728

oracle          hard    memlock 3145728

grid            soft    nproc   2047

grid            hard    nproc   16384

grid            soft    nofile  1024

grid            hard    nofile  65536

root            soft    nproc   2047

root            hard    nproc   16384

root            soft    nofile  1024

root            hard    nofile  65536

essbasesoftnofile10000

essbasehardnofile65536

# End of file