From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 15 6:50:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.informatics.bangor.ac.uk (saturn.sees.bangor.ac.uk [147.143.102.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AC7637B41B for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 06:50:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from adam.sees.bangor.ac.uk (manager@adam.sees.bangor.ac.uk [147.143.102.5]) by mailhost.informatics.bangor.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA18288 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:50:04 GMT (envelope-from manager@saturn.sees.bangor.ac.uk) From: Informatics Helpdesk Received: (from manager@localhost) by adam.sees.bangor.ac.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g1FEnxf22600 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:49:59 GMT Message-Id: <200202151449.g1FEnxf22600@adam.sees.bangor.ac.uk> Subject: malloc problems To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:49:58 +0000 (GMT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have a user who is having trouble malloc-ing more than 512Mbytes. His machine (4.3-RELEASE) has 1Gb memory and 2.5Gb swap. I've checked /etc/login.conf (all apparently relevant entries are 'unlimited'), and the kernel does not appear to have any relevant restrictions. I guess I must be missing something, but so far its not obvious to me. All suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message