Hello everyone.

Just thought I’d say hi. So….HI! It’s friday, so you can’t expect to much from me. Later! -Jonathon

Example of using “ulimit” to limit memory usage

ulimit can be used to limit memory utilization (among other things) Here is an example of setting memory usage so low that /bin/ls (which is larger than /bin/cat) no longer works, but /bin/cat still works. $ ls -lh /bin/ls /bin/cat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25K May 24 2008 /bin/cat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 88K May…

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LOPSA Elections: Call for Self-Nominations

The LOPSA Leadership Committee hereby submits a call for Board Candidate Self-Nominations. The LOPSA Bylaws (http://governance.lopsa.org/index.php/LOPSA_Bylaws) state: — An eligible member may stand for election to the Board if: A petition, signed by no less than 10 (ten) members of the Association in good standing, is submitted to the Chair of the Leadership Committee, no…

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LOPSA BoF @ SCALE 2009

We are happy to announce a LOPSA Birds of a Feather at SCaLE. This is your chance to hang with Jesse Trucks, Chris St. Pierre, and all the other crazy SAs representing LOPSA at SCaLE this year. The BoF will be from 6:00 – 7:00PM on Friday night in the Logan Room. So be sure…

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