From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 15 6:56:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.98.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83BBE37B402 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 06:56:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1FEuZk37656; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:56:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdg.de) X-Authentication-Warning: gwdu60.gwdg.de: kheuer owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:56:35 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer To: Informatics Helpdesk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: malloc problems In-Reply-To: <200202151449.g1FEnxf22600@adam.sees.bangor.ac.uk> Message-ID: <20020215155407.P37635-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Informatics Helpdesk wrote: > I have a user who is having trouble malloc-ing more than > 512Mbytes. His machine (4.3-RELEASE) has 1Gb memory and 2.5Gb swap. > I've checked /etc/login.conf (all apparently relevant entries are > 'unlimited'), and the kernel does not appear to have any relevant > restrictions. I guess I must be missing something, but so far its > not obvious to me. All suggestions welcome. Just to make sure - did you try "limits" and "limits -h" to see which limits are set? Regards K. Heuer (kheuer@gwdg.de) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message