On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 07:35:31PM +0000, Fredrik Carlsson wrote:
> The ulimit values are high already and "ulimit -d `ulimit -d -H`" did
> unfortunately not make any difference.

Looking at it again the program tries to allocate 2.2GB of memory.
I guess this is a program bug in MySQL. If it isn't than you'll need
a NetBSD-amd64 system with about 4GB of memory to do the dump.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/