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Date:      Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:53:44 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        "julesg@newebmail.com" <julesg@newebmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: can't address at least 3GB or virtual memory
Message-ID:  <20040329165344.GA13240@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <WorldClient-F200403291126.AA26211510@newebmail.com>
References:  <WorldClient-F200403291126.AA26211510@newebmail.com>

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On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:26:21AM -0500, julesg@newebmail.com wrote:

> I am trying to submit user-class jobs to a FreeBSD platform running 5.2.1
>=20
> And when I attempt to malloc in excess of 512MB, my program core dumps.

That's an administrative restriction to prevent a runaway process
killing the whole machine.  See limits(1) for instructions on how to
alter the setting.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.                       26 The Paddocks
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