Subject: Out of memory? -- hard to believe, honestly
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Peter Simons <simons@cys.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/07/1997 13:07:17
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Hi,

while converting a rather largish LaTeX document to HTML using the
LaTeX2HTML perl script, my machine told me that it would be out of
memory -- what I honestly don't believe. top said that the perl
process had consumed about 12MB of memory, on a machine with 128MB
real ram plus 350 megabyte of swap -- the latter being completely
unused so far.

So I guess that there is some limitation in the kernel saying how much
memory a process is allowed to allocate. Can anybody give me an idea
where I can raise that value, if possible, without having to
recompile?

(Before someone asks: I am using bash, not csh, so I don't have any
limits on my shell, as far as I know.)

	-peter

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