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-rwxr-xr-xtests/misc/printf-surprise5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tests/misc/printf-surprise b/tests/misc/printf-surprise
index d15987bce..b6f627598 100755
--- a/tests/misc/printf-surprise
+++ b/tests/misc/printf-surprise
@@ -55,7 +55,10 @@ mkfifo_or_skip_ fifo
export MALLOC_PERTURB_=0
head -c 10 fifo > out &
-( ulimit -v 10000; env $prog %20000000f 0 2>err-msg > fifo )
+
+# Choosing the virtual memory limit, 11000 is enough, but 10000 is too
+# little and provokes a "memory exhausted" diagnostic on FreeBSD 9.0-p3.
+( ulimit -v 15000; env $prog %20000000f 0 2>err-msg > fifo )
exit=$?
# Map this longer, and rarer, diagnostic to the common one.