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From: Wayne Farmer <wayne@aarnet.edu.au>
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Subject: Memory Process Limit when running /bin/sh
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I have named running from /etc/sysconfig and hence /etc/rc on boot.

It is running as a caching named and grows with time.  
But when it hits 64Mb, the following occurs :

... named[68]: savedata: malloc: Cannot allocate memory - ABORT
... /kernel: pid 68: named: uid 0: exited on signal 6 
... /kernel: uid 0 on /: file system full

A previous answer suggested this was a shell limit and suggested the 
ulimit command in sh - I looked but did not find so I ran named again 
using tcsh with increased memory limits and it is now running at 90Mb no
problems.

Does /bin/sh have a built-in limit ?  Can it be changed ?  What is the 
suggestion in this type of case ?  I have read where /bin/sh is not true 
Bourne.

Thanks
Wayne