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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!newsfeeder.gi.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Help with ulimit, please Date: 4 Sep 1996 07:16:56 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <50jad8$js4@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <Pine.NEB.3.94.960831182314.24496A-100000@polder.ubc.kun.nl> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Joop Jansen <joop@polder.ubc.kun.nl> wrote: > I have a rather urgent problem. I want to run a program that needs to > allocate a large amount of space, but I don't seem to have the priviledge. > I need about 18Mb of memory, the machine has got 32Mb. ulimit gives the > information shown below. I suspect that I need to raise a global > limit, but I could not find the right handle. I have already answered this question in c.u.b.freebsd.misc. It would be nice if you learnt how to crosspost correctly. > $ ulimit -v 2000 > ulimit: cannot raise limit: Invalid argument ulimit -S -d is your friend, you will need to bump the data segment size. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j