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Re: problem about Xess..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sun Sep 3 13:11:17 1995
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 1995 13:11:03 -0400
To: I-Lin Wang <ilin@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[309] in netbsd-help mailing list archive"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> Then, under the "Graph", select the "Line Graph" in the "New
> Graph", then, I got an error mesasge:
>
> Error: Cannot perform malloc
>
> And Xess crashed.
>
> Please check this and give me any advice about how to fix it.
> Thanks.
Hi!
It seems that by default NetBSD limits the data segment of a process
to 16 megabytes. You can remove this limitating by executing:
unlimit datasize
prior to running Xess. You can put this in your dotfiles if you want.
--jhawk
