Alastair M. Robinson wrote:
around the 500 meg mark. Does OS X have the "ulimit" command? If so, it might be worth checking to see if there's perhaps a 512 meg limit in operation, and whether it can be lifted?
Yes it does (under bash at least), but the default is unlimited: ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) 6144 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 256 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 1 stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 266 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited Graeme Gill.