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From: gwoho@nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: memory/swap
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.215038.20384@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 91 21:50:38 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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a program like: for (;;) if (malloc(1000))puts("a");
seems to me only to be able to allocate about 6m on this 8m 386
sysv at&t unix machine. there must be about 24m of swap.
why is this?
how do i allocate more memory that that? is it a ulimit problem?
gwoho liu.