On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Ezequiel Reyes wrote:

> Hi, I've been trying to compile a program for NetBSD that uses mmap() to map
> 128MB to memory. But the function gives me a not enogh memory error (can't
> remember the man constant right now), I then tried 127 and it work ok. I
> then used malloc() to try getting 128, but it can't allocate as much either,
> only 127 again. Is this a limitation of NetBSD? I can allocate 128 on other
> platforms with no problem using either mmap or malloc.
>

It's "ulimit -d unlimited" for bash.

root only may do this, unless you export a higher limit than the
default one.

You may also search the mailing list archives for further information, 
often people have data size limit problems with Java under NetBSD.

-Florian