exited on signal 6

[Melvyn Sopacua]

On Friday 16 January 2004 16:55, David Kelly wrote:

> Have seen the size over 525M. In any case for this particular newsgroup
> pan core dumps on signal 6. An "abort"? Where is this signal coming
> from?

From malloc() most probably.
Check the value of MAXDSIZ in your kernel config, or use limits -d to find out 
that the default maximum data size for any process is 512Megs.

-- 
Melvyn

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