Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:43:29 +0200 | From | Meelis Roos <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Patch to Memory Subsystem ... (Needed?) |
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BS> I've even tried to play around with ulimit:
BS> bsc@cryo:/home/bsc > ulimit -l 2048 # max size any prog can get in this BS> shell BS> # is 2Mb (hopefully) BS> bsc@cryo:/home/bsc > ./eat # goodbye available memory
BS> ... it might be I who uses the ulimit command wrongly ...
What about glibc using anonymous mmap for the mallocs instead of the data segmant? AFAIK these mallocs are not counted in ulimit by the kernel so you can ignore the ulimit sometimes. IIRC the malloc behaviour is configurable.
-- Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)
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