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From: astrand@nmsu.edu (Allan E. Strand)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: virtual memory limits in NetBSD
Date: 1 Nov 1994 18:20:25 GMT
Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
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Hi all,

I am trying to run a program which consumes large quantites of memory.  The
problem comes when the amount of memory consumed exceeds the size of the
actual memory available to the system.  What I would like to do is raise the
virtual memory limit to an amount greater than the amount of RAM installed on
the system. 

Currently, we are running NetBSD 0.9 on a 486 machine with 32M of RAM, the
kernel is compiled with MAXDSIZE = (64*1024*1024) and MAXTSIZE =
(64*1024*1024)

When (running csh) I try to change the hard limits for program data size to a
number above 32M, I am not able to.  Does anyone have any suggestions? 

Thanks
Allan Strand
Dept of Biology
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003
astrand@nmsu.edu