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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!nessie!demon!azrael.demon.co.uk!azrael.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: blade@azrael.demon.co.uk (Ji Kim) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,demon.ip.support.unix Subject: Re: tin says out of memory Date: 4 Aug 1993 23:15:45 -0000 Organization: 386BSD Hackers UnLimited. Lines: 40 Message-ID: <23pfv1$gc@azrael.demon.co.uk> References: <CAMv3L.4LA@kram.org> <CAnCpz.E30@demon.co.uk> <CB8wzB.EFI@demon.co.uk> In article <CB8wzB.EFI@demon.co.uk> mark@demon.co.uk (Superuser) writes: >In article <CAnCpz.E30@demon.co.uk> giles@demon (Giles Todd) writes: >> >>A 386BSD ignorant punter says "ulimit"? Or "getrlimit/setrlimit" even. >>Please flame if you have already thought of this. > >A 386BSD "only ever-so-very-slightly" literate punter did think >of this, but couldn't find out where it was defined. :( I don't have the original article but you can get more mileage from your memory if you use limit datasize unlimited (this works only in csh) or alternatively use a C proggie to set the limit using setrlimit,eg. #include <sys/time.h> #include <sys/resource.h> main() { struct rlimit tmp; tmp.rlim_cur=RLIM_INFINITY; tmp_rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY; setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA,&tmp); } Hope this helps, Ji. -- E-mail: blade@azrael.demon.co.uk (home) | azrael.demon.co.uk: blade@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (college) | 486DX-33 running 386BSD. | X,News,Email all running | smoothly. Info. on request.