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From: marc@arnor.uucp
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Subject: Re: Paging-space problems
Message-ID: <MARC.90Nov14153807@marc.watson.ibm.com>
Date: 14 Nov 90 20:38:07 GMT
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In-Reply-To: staff@cadlab.sublink.ORG's message of 8 Nov 90 07:59:39 GMT

malloc fails when the request causes the heap to exceed the 
ulimit for data.  It has nothing to do with paging space.

In AIX V3 the default data limit is quite large, which is why
it appears to behave differently.

Marc Auslander