Hi,

The amount of memory for a process is set at compile time of the kernel
with:  options DFLDSIZ="(128*1024*1024)"

With a Gig of ram, and depending on what this box is doing you may also
want to raise other limits to.
Like:
options         MAXFILES=
options         NMBCLUSTERS=


-Al



On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Donald Lee wrote:

> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:24:07 -0500
> From: Donald Lee <MacPPC@caution.icompute.com>
> To: port-macppc@netbsd.org
> Subject: dumb question - ulimit defaults
>
> I'm running into problems with a program that uses over 128M of memory.
> I could do the "ulimit" thing, but the box has about 1 Gig of
> memory, and I want to raise the default.
>
> How do you change the _default_ ulimit numbers?
>
> (netbsd mail archives appear to be down....)
>
> Thanks,
>
> -dgl-
>