Re: Memory limit testing: whether user really can use 2100MB memory

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 11:56:46AM -0400, Jameson C. Burt said > > As a user, without administrative privileges, I want to determine if I > really can consume a certain amount of memory. Try to consume it, and see if malloc() fails or your kernel locks up. There are a huge number of factors: *

Memory limit testing: whether user really can use 2100MB memory

As a user, without administrative privileges, I want to determine if I really can consume a certain amount of memory. Even though "ulimit -a" returned max memory size unlimited, I have an application that seemed limited to 2.1GB, so I wanted to EMPIRICALLY TEST the memory limit. I welcom