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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.
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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