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Our recommendation
Verify all operating system issues before starting the installation process. Plan
ahead. Make sure that the use of EJFs or JFS2 is needed in your business
environment before proceeding.
7.2.3 Check the default values in ulimit
The ulimit command sets and reports user process resource limits, as defined
in the /etc/security/limits file. This file contains these default limits:
fsize = 2097151
core = 2097151
cpu = -1
data = 262144
rss = 65536
stack = 65536
nofiles = 2000
During installation, DB2 creates an entry in the limits file and changes the
defaults for the instance owner (user db2inst1) with the following values:
db2inst1:
fsize = -1
core = -1
data = 491519
rss = -1
stack = 32767
nofiles = 2000
How to view or set
To view the actual values, you can either edit the file (/etc/security/limits) or
use the ulimit -a command.
To change the values for the number of files and the size of the files, you can
either edit the file or use commands such as:
ulimit -n 2000
ulimt -f -1
For large SMP machines with clones, issue the ulimit -unlimited command:
Our recommendation
Be sure that all values for the db2inst1 user are in the limits file. If not, we
recommend you to add it.

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