At 15:22 Uhr -0500 31.7.2002, drogers@hashpipe.sweetjimmy.net wrote:
>I tried the ulimit command for my bash shell, and it used some VM, but i
>still have 100+ MB available.  right now ulimit -a tells me that the limit
>for virtual memory is 34816k.  And I cant seem to increase it, does anyone
>know the bash syntax for it? the man page is a little unclear

IIRC, there's a soft and a hard limit, and you probably need to be root to
raise the hard limit.

	hauke


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