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Date:      Sat, 26 Oct 1996 17:34:58 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        jgreco@ns.sol.net
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HELP! :-( Hitting datasize limit 
Message-ID:  <17119.846344098@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:17:14 CDT." <199610261417.JAA10206@earth.execpc.com> 

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In message <199610261417.JAA10206@earth.execpc.com>, Joe Greco writes:

>It starts off executing at about 55MB and will generally grow to double
>that within 12 hours.  However, lately, it has been dying multiple times
>daily with malloc errors (using phkmalloc, but given the apparent cause
>I do not think this is the problem).  The current situation would tend 
>to have caused it to grow >> 110MB... and when I did a little looking
>into the problem, malloc was indeed returning NULL, which caused me to
>scratch my head until I typed "unlimit; limit"...

You may want to

	ln -sf H /etc/malloc.conf

I've not gotten a complete picture, but people indicate that it helps
a little bit.

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