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Subject: Re: having 1.5GB RAM I cannot allocate more than 512MB RAM in 4.10
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthias Buelow" <mkb@incubus.de>
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Subject: Re: having 1.5GB RAM I cannot allocate more than 512MB RAM in
4.10


> dkouroun@cc.uoi.gr wrote:
>
> > I have an AMD Athlon-XP with 1.5GB RAM.
> > Unfortunately my FreeBSD 4.10 throws a memory allocation
> > error when in a simple C++ program I try to allocate
> > with new 512MB of RAM or more. Until 511MB it goes fine!
>
> what's the output of ulimit -d?

What's the trick to running "ulimit?"

"command not found" yet whereis sez it is a shell builtin command.

Jack