Hi Cesar, > Thanks for your reply. I forgot to mention that the same program works > seamless in my PC (1 processor 1.7G memory) so when I moved to UNIX I > thought...It should work (considering that is C). > these are the numbers when I ran ulimit -a You're Windows machine has 2 GB (perhaps 3 or 4, depending on your hardware) of addressable memory, some of it may be virtual memory. Your HP-UX has ulimit constaints of 1 GB (some of which may be virtual memory). Increase the ulimit on your HP-UX platform. HTH, --Eljay