Re: virtual memory exhausted

["Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowledge.com>]

> Internet websites tell me something about increasing per process virtual
> memory (would make sense), but how do I do that? Is this a sysctl-setting
> or a kernel setting or something? Or does this have a totally different
> cause (and solution)?
> I have about 160 MB of swap and 80 MB of RAM on a Pentium 166 MHz with
> openBSD 2.8.

Depending on your shell, it is usually set there. For ksh and bash (I
think):

$ ulimit -a

to get a list, and,

$ ulimit -d 200000

to set it to a large number.

Peter