/etc/security/limits.conf - settings?

[Jim Westbrook <jimw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have now spent the better part of two days sifting through usenet
group archived data via Google trying to find either some recommended
values or formulae to calculate starting values for use in
/etc/security/limits.conf.  The most frequent suggestion was to examine
the README files for PAM.  I'm sorry to say that doing so revealed only
the mechanics of setting values in this file and the reminder to insure
that PAM login file include a reference to pam_limits.so such as this:

btw don't forget to add the line
session    required /lib/security/pam_limits.so
add the end of /etc/pam.d/login
otherwise the limits.conf file wont be read

Because each system will have different quantities of resources, it
seems logical that there should be a recommended relationship or "rule
of thumb" for the values in limits.conf.  But, I have found nothing
except the somewhat circular logic of: see(a) -> see(b) -> see(a)
without any substantive data.

Does anyone have settings in limits.conf that are working?  If so, will
you be so kind as to pass them along?

Thanks,
JimW
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