can't address at least 3GB or virtual memory

[Matthew Seaman]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:26:21AM -0500, julesg at newebmail.com wrote:

> I am trying to submit user-class jobs to a FreeBSD platform running 5.2.1
> 
> And when I attempt to malloc in excess of 512MB, my program core dumps.

That's an administrative restriction to prevent a runaway process
killing the whole machine.  See limits(1) for instructions on how to
alter the setting.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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