Re: Virtual memory exhausted...

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%jocelyn.rhein.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 03:27:11PM +0200, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote:
> Hello Adam
> 
> On 20-Nov-99, you wrote:
> 
> > I had the same problem.  The memory is limited.
> > Use, for example:
> > unlimit -h
> >     (if you're root only)
> > unlimit
> > if you are using tcsh.  Read manuals for other shells.
> 
> I'm using bash, and ulimit -v reports a 34 MB virtual memory. I can't
> change that. ulimit -H or ulimit -S doesn't change anything. I've even
> tried to set a limit after -H and -S. The VM-size is still the same. My
> swap is 128 MB. 

$ ulimit -d
32768
$ ulimit -d 131072
$ ulimit -d
131072
$ 

I must confess this is with the NetBSD sh (pdksh). Apparently, in Posixish 
shells, unlimiting must be done explicitly. I guess this is the same for bash.

Regards,
        -is