Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:00:23 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jan Koum <jkb@best.com> Cc: Ted Buswell <tbuswell@mediaone.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: user limits, login.conf, etc. Message-ID: <19980119100023.28093@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980118150453.13092B-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>; from Jan Koum on Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 03:06:07PM -0800 References: <199801181610.LAA08571@tbuswell.ne.mediaone.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980118150453.13092B-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>
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On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 03:06:07PM -0800, Jan Koum wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Ted Buswell wrote: > >>>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Toshok <toshok@netscape.com> writes: >> >> Chris> I've upped every conceivable limit that I run across, and I >> Chris> still get >> Chris> gdb: virtual memory exhausted: can't allocate 4072 bytes. >> >> What does the output of 'limits' look like? Does it look like what >> you would expect based on your /etc/login.conf? >> >> Chris> when I try to debug netscape. The gdb process never gets >> >> If you login via xdm you are going to get a possibly very different >> set of limits than if you login to the console and then run 'startx'. > > I have similar problem with xdm. When I run netscape on Xwindows > running from xdm I get "netscape out of memory" error after some time of > use. Any idea on how can I fix xdm to allow more resources for users? This sounds like a simple limits problem. Have you set up /etc/login.conf correctly? Greg
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