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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: memory/swap
Message-ID: <16365@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 8 Jun 91 04:32:10 GMT
References: <1991Jun6.215038.20384@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Jun6.215038.20384@nntp-server.caltech.edu> gwoho@nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu) writes:
>is it a ulimit problem?

Not quite, because ulimit applies to file size, not process size.
Most likely there is a process size limit that you're bumping into.
Note that it is unreasonable to try to make a process as large as
the entire swap space.