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Subject: Re: Increasing per-process memory limits?
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> Try reading the manual page of /etc/login.conf:
>
> 	man login.conf
>
> Another way of enforcing/changing the limits that a user process has is
> through the 'limit' built-in command of tcsh or the /usr/bin/limits
> system tool.  More information about these in the tcsh(1) and limits(1)
> manpages.

And the corresponding built-in in [k]sh(1) compatible shell is ulimit(1).

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-jg.