Well, it works. Thanks a lot.

Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> "david.aubril" <david.aubril@ac-nantes.fr> writes:
>   
>> 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).
>>>       
>> 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 ) ?
>>     
>
> That depends on how you start X. If you start it from your login shell
> with "startx", then .profile works fine, because X is a descendant of
> the shell where the ulimit got changed, or your .xinitrc.
>
> If you start X with xdm, your .xsession file might be appropriate. I
> do this in my .xsession to run my profile and my xinitrc, and you
> could put the command into either of those:
>
> ------
> #!/bin/sh
>
> export XSESSION=YES
>
> . .profile
> . .xinitrc
> ------
>
> or you could put the ulimit command directly in the .xsession.
>
> You could also do it in your window manager init file, depending on
> the window manager and how it works.
>
> If you use xdm, another possibility is to do it in an additional
> script for the xdm launcher, such as adding a /etc/rc.conf.d/xdm
> script containing the right ulimit command.
>
> There are probably a dozen ways to do this but they're all varations
> on the same theme.
>
>