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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!wizard.pn.com!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!uunet!demos1!dream.demos.su!denis From: denis@dream.demos.su (Denis Julitov) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: NetBSD and Large Programs Date: 17 Sep 1994 06:29:11 GMT Organization: Demos Plus Co. Lines: 31 Message-ID: <35e2c5$ig2@news.demos.su> NNTP-Posting-Host: denis%@dream.demos.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] I have a question, we run a very CPU and memory hogging program and we have begin to notice that it seems to be crashing in totally un-reasonable places. Arrays are getting wacked, link lists are getting trashed... The only reason I think this is a OS problem is that I can run the same program under a FreeBSD OS and we do not have this problem. I currently set the following limits in the .cshrc limit datasize 32767 limit maxproc 160 limit openfiles 256 I have tried changing the stack limit (which I think is what I need to alter) but when I do, ANY program I run cases a core dump.. even stuff such as netstat or who. Is there something I can recompile in the kernal that might increast the stack... hopefully clearing up the problem... The reason I think it is a stack limitation is when running under gdb the program does as we said and crashes for totaly unknown reasons. We have run the same program, under gdb, on both Free and Net, so I know it is a OS problem... or a misconfiguration problem on my part for Net. Thanks for any solutions you might have. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- wilsonm@dale.hsc.unt.edu 1:130/28@fidonet.org Mike Wilson 817-735-5403 (work) TCOM, Senior Network Tech. 817-220-2000 (BBS) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------