In message <199605301804.LAA13343@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>, you write:
>I get this when debugging lesstif apps on my sparc, too :-)  Try doing 
>the following:
>
>unlimit memoryuse
>unlimit datasize

	It turns out that I saw a bug in bash on NetBSD. When I suspected
ulimits, I typed "ulimit" and it always returned "unlimited" - no limits
in effect. Little did I know before that it's a lie; csh tells me the
real story (that there's a 16MB data size limit, which would explain my
problem!).

								-Craig