Hello,
I am a little concern with the amount of resources that I can use in a shared machine. Is there any way to test if the administrator has a limt in the amount of resources that I can use?. And if does, to make a more complete question, how can I set up such limit?.
Thank you.
For process related limits, you can have a look in /etc/security/limits.conf (read the comments in the file, use google or use man limits.conf for more information). And as jpalecek points out, you may use ulimit -a to see (and possibly modify) all such limits currently in effect.
You can use the command quota to see if a disk quota is in effect.
You can try running
ulimit -a
to see what resource limits are in effect. Also, if you are allowed to change such limits, you can change them by the ulimit command, eg.
ulimit -c unlimited
lifts any limit for a size of a core file a process can make.