Why am I seeing an Out of Memory error when running Wusage, even though my machine appears to have plenty of memory available?
This is usually because the ‘limit’ command, or a similar command, has been used to limit memory usage by any one program. FreeBSD, BSDI and related systems support the ‘limit’ command, and its opposite counterpart, ‘unlimit’. By default, many BSD systems will limit applications’ use of memory quite severely. One BSDI system we encountered was set to a limit of 16 Mb for any given program. This is not sufficient memory to analyze all report frequencies simultaneously, especially not with large log files. To correct this problem, type: limit datasize unlimited Or: limit datasize 64M Or: unlimit at the Unix shell prompt BEFORE you run the “wusage” command. Which command is best depends on your needs and the privileges assigned to you by the administrator of the machine. (Please, try all three variations and see what works for you; no need to contact us and ask which one will work, as we don’t know a great deal about your individual situation.) Users with very large log files may need to
