On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Rajat Sharma <fs.rajat@gmail.com> wrote:

yes there is a limit, look at

getrlimit show the size as 4GiGs of RLIMIT_DATA on a 32-bit. which means that its unlimited? Thanks,

# man setrlimit

RLIMIT_DATA The maximum size of the process's data segment (initialized data, uninitialized data, and heap). This limit affects calls to brk(2) and sbrk(2), which fail with the error ENOMEM upon encountering the soft limit of this resource.

-Rajat

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 3:11 PM, devendra.aaru <devendra.aaru@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi all,

Is there any limit on the maximum data segment size used by c programs?

Thanks,

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On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:34 PM, devendra.aaru <devendra.aaru@gmail.com> wrote:

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On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Rajat Sharma <fs.rajat@gmail.com> wrote:

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yes there is a limit, look at

getrlimit show the size as 4GiGs of RLIMIT_DATA on a 32-bit. which means that its unlimited?

I mean 4Gigs of RLIMIT_DATA is both the rlim_cur and rlim_max. i have a data section of size 213K, i am thinking that i should not be growing the data section size.

yes try the c function setrlimit, thats what I meant by looking at man page. #include <sys/time.h> #include <sys/resource.h> int getrlimit(int resource, struct rlimit *rlim); int setrlimit(int resource, const struct rlimit *rlim);

I have went through google and didn't found any article that says about the maximum data section a process can use.

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Thanks,