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From: Joop Jansen <joop@polder.ubc.kun.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Raising ulimit??
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 18:36:12 +0200
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Hello all,
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 below. I suspect that I need raise a sort of global limit,
but I could not find the right handle.
If anyone could give me advise, I would be VERY, VERY grateful.
Thanks,
Joop Jansen
$ ulimit -a
core file size (blocks) 0
data seg size (kbytes) 16384
file size (blocks) unlimited
max memory size (kbytes) 28884
stack size (kbytes) 512
cpu time (seconds) unlimited
max user processes 40
pipe size (512 bytes) 1
open files 64
virtual memory (kbytes) 16896
$ ulimit -v 2000
ulimit: cannot raise limit: Invalid argument
Sometimes a get a message about not being priviledged to do so.
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