On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 04:51:51PM -0400, leam wrote:
> If i do  "ulimit", I get "unlimited".

You're using a sh-like shell. try ulimit -a to see all limits,
and then ulimit with the appropriate option to set the limit you want.

> If you're saying that a machine 
> doing nothing but a single login and a single make chokes, I'd say 
> there's a problem.

The per-process limit is there to avoid a process getting fool to eat
all machines ressources. If you know a process will need a hunge amount of
ressources, you have to set the limits appropriately.

Maybe you have a problem with your make process too, it usually doesn't need
that much ressources.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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