Well, that's the solution if I use a shell to launch the application. 
But what about if I use a launcher or a shortcut in the menu ( in a 
graphical environment ) ? I'd like to be able to launch the applications 
without opening a terminal.

Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> "david.aubril" <david.aubril@ac-nantes.fr> writes:
>   
>> Hi everyone.
>> I'm using netbsd 3.1 on a i686 laptop. On a couple of applications, I
>> often meet memory faults. I have to raise memory each time by using
>> ulimit -d.
>> I was wondering how I could tune memory size once for all.
>>     
>
> Change your ulimits in your login script (.profile or .login depending
> on your shell).
>
> Perry
>
>