[Bioclusters] Fwd: Re: [GE users] Mac G5 memory limits ?

[Rayson Ho]

Turns out to be an OS bug in MacOSX...

Rayson

--- Ron Chen <ron_chen_123 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Sorry Reuti, the discussions came from the
> bioclusters
> mailing list, and I invited him to join this list.
> 
>
http://bioinformatics.org/pipermail/bioclusters/2005-March/002370.html
>
http://bioinformatics.org/pipermail/bioclusters/2005-March/002371.html
> 
> 
> Anyway, it seems to be an OS bug. I have guest
> account
> on a Mac:
> 
> % sw_vers
> ProductName:    Mac OS X
> ProductVersion: 10.3.8
> BuildVersion:   7U16
> 
> % limit
> cputime         unlimited
> filesize        unlimited
> datasize        6144 kbytes
> stacksize       8192 kbytes
> coredumpsize    0 kbytes
> memoryuse       6144 kbytes
> descriptors     1024
> memorylocked    6144 kbytes
> maxproc         100
> 
> But it still allows me to allocate more memory than
> the limit. I am doing this interactively without
> SGE.
> 
> Please report this bug to Apple:
> https://bugreport.apple.com/
> 
> And also, we are making the PPC Linux port offical
> in
> the source tree very soon. May be you can replace
> OSX
> with PPCLinux?
> 
>  -Ron
> 
> --- Barry J Mcinnes <Barry.J.Mcinnes at noaa.gov>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Thanks for the information. I didn't restate the
> > original problem in 
> > this email, as I was replying to a request for the
> > limit data.
> > The problem is :
> > We have set the memory limit to be 1GB, but the
> test
> > program does not 
> > get stopped at 1GB.
> > thanks barry
> > 
> > Reuti wrote:
> > 



		
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