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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!Frankfurt.Germany.EU.net!Stuttgart.Germany.EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Raising ulimit?? Date: 31 Aug 1996 16:05:21 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <509ns1$7uq@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.NEB.3.94.960830182935.15684A-100000@polder.ubc.kun.nl> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 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 -v 2000 > ulimit: cannot raise limit: Invalid argument You need to bump the data segment size limit. ulimit -d. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)