On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Manveru <manv...@manveru.pl> wrote: > > > 2009/9/11 Evan Mason <evanma...@gmail.com> > > Hi, >> >> I am running lyx 1.6.4 with Mandriva 2008. Over the last few days Lyx >> keeps >> freezing, and after a minute or two comes up with the message 'Lyx has >> caught an exception... Exception: std::bad_alloc'. It seems to happen >> just >> with one particular document I am working on, but I am not totally sure. >> >> I'd be grateful for any help with a solution to this. >> >> Many thanks, Evan >> > > > You are running out of memory for the application. Is it possible that your > Mandriva has any default limits set for the applications? If you are not > sure, post us the result of the ulimit command executed on console. (Guys, > correct me if I am wrong with ulimit command). > > -- > Manveru > jabber: manv...@manveru.pl > gg: 1624001 > http://www.manveru.pl >
For ulimit I get: [ema...@msasa cb_2009_3km_42]$ ulimit unlimited So that seems to be ok. Evan