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To: Cove Schneider <cove@clearink.com>
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Subject: Re: Unable to use all swap? (How to up proc. memory limits?)
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Cove Schneider writes:
> Hi All,
> 
> For some reason malloc(3) fails with an out of memory error even
> though the machine has ~500MB swap left. Am I missing something
> here? I'm guessing there is some setting in the config file that
> I don't know about...

Try runniing "limits" from the shell before you run the process. 

> Here is a snapshot done at 1/sec intervals of what happens to the
> swap space when I run the program. It maxes out at %42 and then
> dies (the process is then around 500MB or so). The %35 there is
> the kernel freeing of the swap space after malloc(3) failed and
> the test program exited.

My default userid & root both have datasize limits aroud 524M.

	<mike


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