I think the right place is probably cgroups... I am surprised ulimits and cgroups hasn't come up before.... or maybe I am just not finding it.   Sent from my HTC smartphone on the Now Network from Sprint! ----- Reply message ----- From: "Lennart Poettering" <lennart@poettering.net> Date: Thu, May 5, 2011 4:31 am Subject: [systemd-devel] /etc/initscript equivalent for systemd? To: <ccox@endlessnow.com> Cc: <systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org> On Tue, 03.05.11 11:05, ccox@endlessnow.com (ccox@endlessnow.com) wrote: > In sysvinit, at least on SLES and RHEL, you could use /etc/initscript as a > mechansim to get "shell" control things like ulimits to take hold system > wide, since /etc/initscript was invoked as a wrapper around all init > scripts. > > So.. where do we set system wide ulimits at in systemd?  Sounds like it > has gotten more complicated (??). > > Forgive me if this is a FAQ-like question... I didn't seen anything using > Google to search the archives. You can set the cpu affinity and cgroups default in system.conf (see systemd.conf(5)). We can add more options like this if needed. But quite frankly -- like Kay -- I'd like to hear the uses cases before we do anything more in that direction. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.