Subject: Re: increasing maximum process memory
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: current-users
Date: 09/16/2007 18:21:34
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 10:58:22AM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> I have a moderately urgent need for a temporary increase in the amount
> of memory available to a process. Right now, even when running as
> root, I can't get anything more than
>
> ulimit -m 2097151
>
> If it matters, the machine is an i386 running 4.99.30 on the power
> management branch from Sept 4. It has 1G of real memory; for immediate
> purposes, performance is not a major concern.
-m is for "total physical memory that can be in use by a process";
are you sure you didn't mean -d "data segment size of a process" ?
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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