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Subject: Re: gimp-error
To: i.scheming@d.kamp.net (Irene Scheming)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:50:36 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <353E4400.57835A90@d.kamp.net> from "Irene Scheming" at Apr 22, 98 09:24:49 pm
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Hi,

It's out of memory but it may be simply a resource limit per
your login.

e.g. if using a shell such as the pdksh, try

ulimit 

and see the sizes 

then try

ulimit -m 100000
ulimit -d 100000
ulimit -s 32768

or some sizes in range.

Mostyn

> i have a problem with gimp. What reason may be for the following error ?
> 
> ** ERROR : could not allocate 9984 bytes
> gimp fatal error: sigabrt caught
> [n]othing, [e]xit, [s]tack, [a]ttach to process

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