On Thursday 03 November 2005 18:22, Dave Mitchell wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 04:51:17PM -0500, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > That's probably too, but my question is: why does this program quickly > > terminate on other platform (RHEL 4/3, FC-4 32-bit) without grinding > > those machines to an almost halt, but not on FC-4 64-bit ? All machines > > have 1GB RAM. > > It's not how much RAM, but how much swap disk they have that probably > matters. It will fill the available RAM nearly instantly, then grind away > till the swap disk is full too, and then die. Well, that's the thing. All machines have about the same swap (1GB), but on other platform I got the "Memory exhaustion complete" message from the program pretty quickly without the machine grind away and using swap. > > Secondly, why cant I limit the memory usage using ulimit (it seems to > > have no effect) ? > > You probably need to be using ulimit -d rather than -m That doesn't work. Thanks. RDB
