Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!iguanodon.cis.ohio-state.edu!george From: george@iguanodon.cis.ohio-state.edu (George M. Jones) Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore Subject: memory limits Message-ID: <34669@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 10 Feb 89 23:51:55 GMT Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: George M. Jones Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 17 Confusion. I wrote a program that does little more than malloc a number of bytes specified on the command line. It also calls getrlimit(2) to see what my "hard" and "soft" limits are for data, stack and resident size. All come up 16 Meg ( 2**24 - 1), yet malloc fails when I try to get much more than 8 Meg. share(2) does a little better, failing at between 12 and 13 meg. I am on a DPC system with 32 Meg physical memory and (at the time) not much else going on. Ideas ? What am I missing ? ---George Jones OSU Computer & Inf. Science 2036 Neil Ave.,Columbus,Ohio 43210. 614-292-7325 george@cis.ohio-state.edu or ...!osu-cis!george Have yourself a merry little Christmas. -=- OSU Computer & Inf. Science 2036 Neil Ave.,Columbus,Ohio 43210. 614-292-7325 george@cis.ohio-state.edu or ...!osu-cis!george Have yourself a merry little Christmas.