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From: Dan Ts'o <dan@dnn.rockefeller.edu>
Subject: Re: Alternative malloc ?
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In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Daniel Ts'o <dantso@cris.com> wrote:
: 	I am running a big program on FreeBSD 2.1. It is 66Mb and wants to 
: grow a bit and malloc is failing. I presume that it is because, as I recall, 
: the behavior of the BSD default malloc is to allocate in powers of two and
: the next step would be 130Mb, which is bigger than free swap at the moment.

	Nevermind. I forgot about limit(1) somehow...

	Now... is there an easy way to set a user's datasize limit beyond
65Mb, without recompiling the kernel ? Or writing a setuid program to do
that ?
	Thanks.
			Cheers,
			Dan Ts'o			212-327-7671
                        Dept. of Neurobiology   	FAX: 212-327-7671
                        The Rockefeller University
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