On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:15:40 +0400, "Rakhesh Sasidharan"
<rakheshster@gmail.com> wrote:

> > check ulimit settings...
> >
> > # ulimit -d unlimited
> >
> > might be in order.  (or doubling whatever the existing data setting is)
> 
> Thanks! That worked. :) What is ulimit supposed to do? Surprisingly I
> couldn't find any manpages for it ...
> 
See the man page for your shell.  Ulimit controls a variety of
per-process resource consumption limits.  It's implemented as part of the
shell; if were a separate command and hence separate process, the changes
would be lost when that process exits. 


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb