murray@umn-cs.UUCP (William Murray) (10/16/87)
We have a Vax 11/780 running Mt. Xinu. A user on the system is having
a problem running a lisp program. At some point during the run, the system
gives him a message such as "memoryuse limit reached" and then stops execution
of the program. I have looked for a way to increase the memoryuse for the
user but so far haven't found the answer.
Has anyone been faced with this problem and found a solution? If you
have I would appreciate any insight and help.
Thank-you
William Murray
murray@umn-cs.cs.umn.eduforys@sigi.Colorado.EDU (Jeff Forys) (10/18/87)
In article <2369@umn-cs.UUCP> murray@umn-cs.UUCP (William Murray) writes: > We have a Vax 11/780 running Mt. Xinu. At some point during the run, the > system gives [a] message such as "memoryuse limit reached" and then stops > execution of the program. Your kernel is complaining about your memoryuse limit? Is this an added feature from Mt. Xinu? As far as I know, under 4.3BSD, nothing actually checks your memoryuse limit, however, next time the pageout daemon gets fired up, your process becomes a prime candidate for having it's pages stealed. Did I overlook something in there (hard to believe :-)? > I have looked for a way to increase the memoryuse for the user but so > far haven't found the answer. The resource limits (including memoryuse) can be raised/lowered using the "limit" command of `csh'. It is documented in the `csh' manual page. Under 4.2/3 BSD, the limit defaults to nearly all of available memory. If the command `limit memoryuse' yields "umlimited" (4.2BSD) or equals `limit -h memoryuse' (4.3BSD) the limit can not be raised without "superuser intervention" (i.e. you'll have to write a little setuid-root program for him). --- Jeff Forys @ UC/Boulder Engineering Research Comp Cntr (303-492-4991) forys@boulder.Colorado.EDU -or- ..!{hao|nbires}!boulder!forys