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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: 6 Aug 1993 05:45:02 -0000
Organization: 386BSD Hackers UnLimited.
Lines: 27
Message-ID: <23sr4u$a9@azrael.demon.co.uk>
References: <CAMv3L.4LA@kram.org> <CB8wzB.EFI@demon.co.uk> <23pfv1$gc@azrael.demon.co.uk> <CBAwso.8Gt@kram.org>
In article <CBAwso.8Gt@kram.org> mark@kram.org (Mark Turner) writes:
>In article <23pfv1$gc@azrael.demon.co.uk> blade@azrael.demon.co.uk (Ji Kim) writes:
>>
>
>> or alternatively use a C proggie to set the limit using setrlimit,eg.
>
>This seemed to have no effect. :(
>
1. This sets the limit for all child processes, so running this once
won't do anything. What you could do is to put it at the begginning
of any memory-intensive programs. Since bash already has `ulimit'
you probably won't need this.
2. Note that you have to be root to set the limit to infinity. A better
method would be to set it to the current hard limit (why is this
neccessary!!??).
Try `man setrlimit' and `man tcsh' (for limit).
Ji.
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