I was wondering, why it crashed in spite of overcommitting . The solution sometimes is simple, but "far away" ;-) ...: ~# ulimit -v 7353440
Ah, yes... This is an idiotic setting I've seen on SLES systems. We wrote a wrapper around slapd, slapadd, and slapcat, that forces ulimit -v unlimited
--Quanah -- Quanah Gibson-Mount Sr. Member of Technical Staff Zimbra, Inc A Division of VMware, Inc. -------------------- Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration