Gurus,
Please excuse the late summary. I got a lot of responses,
mostly to use the limit command, don't program with static
structures and write a wrapper around the parent process.
The following response from Randy M. Hayman - worked perfectly.
Thanks to all others that responded!!
From: Randy M. Hayman - haymanr_at_icefog.alaska.edu
(from /etc/sysconfigtab)
proc:
max-per-proc-data-size = 0xf0000000
per-proc-data-size = 0xf0000000
max-per-proc-address-space = 0xf0000000
per-proc-address-space = 0xf0000000
vm:
vm-maxvas = 0xf0000000
# name of parameter = default size == description
# = new size date modifier reason
#
#max-per-proc-data-size = 1073741824 == maximum data size a process can use.
# & per-proc-data-size hard and soft limits.
# = 0xf0000000 961125 rmhayman raise from 1GB to 4GB
# for Oracle SGA.
#
#max-per-proc-address-space = 1073741824 == maximum amount of address space a
# & per-proc-address-space process can use. hard & soft limits.
# = 0xf0000000 961125 rmhayman raise from 1GB to 4GB
# for Oracle SGA.
#
#vm-maxvas = 1073741824 == maximum virtual address space
# = 0xf0000000 961125 rmhayman raised from 1GB to 4GB
# for Oracle's shared memory.
Received on Wed Jan 08 1997 - 21:26:49 NZDT