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>On Mon, 17 Jan 2000 17:03:59 EST, Bill Verity <[log in to unmask]>  said:
>> >Eric suggests
>> >"Almost all of these "mysterious halt" problems are due to exceeding
> > >a virtual memory quota."...
>
>1) su to root.
>2) run SMIT, go into:
>      Security & Users
>         Users
>            Change / Show Characteristics of a User
>
>3) Scroll down to the bottom, and change all 5 'soft limits' to -1

Didn't help. Its still failing several times a day. Not leaving anything
behind but some orphan processes.

Not sure why, but the limits now show as:

Soft FILE size    2097151
Soft CPU time     -1
Soft DATA segment -1
Soft STACK size   -1
Sort CORE size    2048

What do these values control?

Are there any debugging switches I can set to try to get a handle on this?

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