Am Dienstag, 14.01.03 um 16:10 Uhr schrieb Richard Welty:

>
> this is probably something very trivial that i'm overlooking.
>
> i just installed 18d on an openbsd 3.1 system (generic, more-or-less
> default x86 configuration)
>
> i can start cmucl just find as root, but it gives an error message
> about memory allocation when i start as a non-root user. clearly 
> there's
> some vm parameter that i need to tweak, but i've yet to find out where 
> it
> is defined.
>

you need to look at one of the ulimit limits, possibly on overall VM 
size, or Data Segment size, I forget which it is exactly...

Checking of this limit has been tightened since 2.9, hence our/my trick 
of mallocing in pieces doesn't work anymore...

Regs, Pierre.

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