Out of memory errors when not out of memory ... what to do for OSF 4.0

[Zack Weinberg]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 04:24:00AM +0000, Gareth Pearce wrote:
> Hi,
> I failed to find a gants report for this before... and now have discovered 
> the solution to the cause of mmap returning out of memory, when plainly the 
> system isnt out of memory, on OSF alpha 4.0
> The problem is (seems to be) that OSF has system limits predefined at a far 
> too low level, for a number of vm parameters.  including a maximum of 200 
> mem-maps per process.

Is it possible for GCC to increase this limit at its own runtime, or
is it a system-wide setting requiring privileges to adjust, or what?

zw