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On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Chuck Robey wrote:

> This can't possibly refer to FreeBSD's memory, seeing as this is a big
> machine, with 192M of swap, and it wasn't even fractionally full.  I think
...

  Yes but on a stock setup, only root can have processes that big.  Are
you compiling as root?  If not, check the output from "limit", and make
appropiate adjustments in /etc/login.conf


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Tom