> > In an attempt to correct the problem altogether ulimit was invoked to
> > restrict the maximum size of it's data segment instead of trying to hack
>
> On linux you have to use RLIMIT_AS, RLIMIT_DATA is useless. This is a
> conspiracy between the kernel and libc to produce a bug... whose fault it
> is you can debate. But unix98 does say that RLIMIT_DATA affects memory
> allocated by malloc() ... it just doesn't count mmap(). Too bad malloc
> uses mmap.
According to the libc info file, using mallopt(M_MMAP_MAX, 0) should
disable the use of mmap() by malloc().
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