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Old 3rd August 2013
ocicat ocicat is offline
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Originally Posted by daemonfowl View Post
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wget: memory exhausted
I have 2giga of ram + 4giga swap + I was on fvwm running only wget.

Is there any way to prevent this from happening -other than upgrading ram- ?
The amount of RAM you currently have installed is not the problem. What you need to be focusing on is the amount of memory allocated to the active user. This is controlled at login by login.conf(5). You can see what settings are currently in place by issuing the following command:

$ user info xyzzy

...where the active username is "xyzzy". Your username will most likely be different.

Note that the login.conf(5) manpage will indicate that modifications can be done to class "staff". If your active user is not in class "staff" (which can be determined by the user(8) command given above...), use chpass(1) or vipw(8) as root to do so.

Last edited by ocicat; 3rd August 2013 at 05:07 AM. Reason: clarity
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