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Re: Limitations on memory allocation for a single user

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From: Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wa...
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:52
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In article <1gn0hoINNhut@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>, marten@ilt.fhg.de (Lutz Marten) writes:
>
>Hello,
>we are using a package called FIDAP from Fluid Dynamics on a DECstation
>5000/240, Ultirx 4.3, 72 MB ram. The kernel has been rebuild after the
>instalation with "physmem 72". The problem that occurs:
>
> [ Message deleted... ]
>
>Is there any limitation on the memory that a single user may allocate ?
>
Yes.  The two most common limits on memory are:

1.  Having sufficient page/swap space for the amount of virtual
    memory desired.
2.  Per-process limits for stack and data space.  These limits are
    determined from the values of maxdsiz (data), maxssiz (stack)
    and maxtsiz (text) in the kernel configuration file.  You can
    check the "Guide to System Configuration File Maintenance" for
    the defaults.  The C-shell enforces it's own limits and these
    can be examined with the shell built-in "limit".  All it really
    limits is the stack size, because the data size limit defaults
    to the system limit.

>--
># Lutz Marten,
>
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Alan Rollow				alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
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From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Subject: Re: Limitations on memory allocation for a single user
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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:52:44 GMT