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Article #3927Re: Limitations on memory allocation for a single user
From: Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wa...
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:52
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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Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!decuac!pa.dec.com!engage.pko.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!nntpd2.cxo.dec.com!nabeth!alan From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.) Subject: Re: Limitations on memory allocation for a single user Message-ID: <1992Dec16.195244.17601@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> Keywords: memory Lines: 31 Sender: alan@nabeth (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.) Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation References: <1gn0hoINNhut@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:52:44 GMT