Hi AIX Folks,

No matter what I've tried today, LIM column from the 'ps v' command
always shows me 'xx' meaning unspecified. What am I doing wrong? We're
trying to detect an ENOMEM problem in our customer's environment for
our process, but this value is alluding us.

>From man ps,
.......
LIM
(v flag) The soft limit on memory used, specified via a
call to the setrlimit subroutine. If no limit has been specified, then
shown as xx. If the limit is set to the system limit, (unlimited), a
value of UNLIM is displayed.
........

I wrote a little code below, and the result from getrlimit shows the
values I'd expect, but the ps value for LIM is always xx, even if I use
RLIM_INFINITY. And the SIZE column seems incorrect.

$ cat main.cpp
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char * const * const argv)
{
auto_ptr r(new rlimit());
r->rlim_cur=16382*1024;
r->rlim_max=32768*1024;
cout << r.get() << endl;
if (0 > setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA,r.get()))
{
cout << "setrlimit(RLIM_DATA) failed: " << errno <<
endl;
}

if (0 > getrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, r.get()))
{
cout << "getrlimit(RLIM_DATA) failed: " << errno <<
endl;
}

cout << "Limits are cur: " << r->rlim_cur << "\tmax: " <<
r->rlim_max << endl;

stringstream p;
p << "ps gv | grep " << argv[0];
cout << p.str() << endl;
system(p.str().c_str());

// wait indefinitely....
sigset_t ss;
sigemptyset(&ss);
sigaddset(&ss, SIGCONT);
sigwaitinfo(&ss,NULL);
return 1;
}


output:

$ ./a.out&
[1] 34388
$ 200019c8
Limits are cur: 16775168 max: 33554432
ps gv | grep -e PID -e ./a.out
PID TTY STAT TIME PGIN SIZE RSS LIM TSIZ TRS %CPU %MEM
COMMAND
75744 pts/0 A 0:00 0 34359738656 34359738808 xx 73
152 0.0 987998.0 ./a.out

This was my ulimit to begin:

$ ulimit -aH
time(seconds) unlimited
file(blocks) unlimited
data(kbytes) unlimited
stack(kbytes) 4194304
memory(kbytes) unlimited
coredump(blocks) unlimited
nofiles(descriptors) unlimited
$ ulimit -a
time(seconds) unlimited
file(blocks) unlimited
data(kbytes) unlimited
stack(kbytes) 1048576
memory(kbytes) unlimited
coredump(blocks) unlimited
nofiles(descriptors) unlimited

And this is my oslevel:

$ oslevel -r
5300-04