On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Rajat Sharma <fs.rajat@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Is there any limit on the maximum data segment size used by c programs? >> >> Thanks, >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Kernelnewbies mailing list >> Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies