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Subject: Re: having 1.5GB RAM I cannot allocate more than 512MB RAM in 4.10
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dkouroun@cc.uoi.gr wrote:

> I have an AMD Athlon-XP with 1.5GB RAM.
> Unfortunately my FreeBSD 4.10 throws a memory allocation 
> error when in a simple C++ program I try to allocate 
> with new 512MB of RAM or more. Until 511MB it goes fine!

what's the output of ulimit -d?