If your numerical simulation software was compiled without largefile support and is trying to address a file larger than 2Gig then you will get this result. All aspects of a system including the applications that address the files, need largefile support in order to work correctly. -- Steve. On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 mlmayo@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running RH Enterprise WS 3 with the default ext3 filesystem on > ia32. I've searched the web for an answer to my question but I'm getting > mixed results. I am running a numerical simulation that crashes with > the following error... file size limit exceeded. The file produced is > at 2GB when the simulation crashes. Is the file size limited to 2GB > on ext3? If so is there a way around this barrier? The output of > ulimit -a produces > > core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited > data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited > file size (blocks, -f) unlimited > max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 4 > max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited > open files (-n) 1024 > pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 > stack size (kbytes, -s) unlimited > cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited > max user processes (-u) 7168 > virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited > > also, I am able to create *.tar files in excess of 2GB so this file size > exceeded error message is puzzling. Thank you for your time. > > Michael > Mayo > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
