Hi Ken and Allen,

>> Does anybody know if the memory allocation size under NetBSD/mac68k is
>> limited?
>Yes.  There are several limits.  You can expand them as root, recompile
>a kernel with a couple of constants changed, or I think that you can do
>something to remove the limits on login (and your shell inherits from
>login).  There is a hard limit, though.

Sigh. I should have looked at the "limit"s, of course. Once again proves
how unsuitable a time 2 A.M. is to get something working...
"unlimit", followed by "limit coredumpsize 0" was sufficient to get it
working. Thanks!

Best wishes,

          Nico

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