I am facing problem while i execute one C program on large input files. The program is running correctly, there is no segmentation fault. But after time (around 56-60 sec:- as shown in 'top' command) the program is getting aborted automatically. When i ran the command 'top', i could see that root executes the process kswapd (pid=9) many times till my a.out gets stopped..

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAN
6245 shinni 24 0 284m 170m 2156 R 73.9 68.1 0:57.60 a.out
9 root 15 0 0 0 0 D 0.7 0.0 0:00 .53 kswapd0

I tried several inputs, but when the time is exceeds the above specified threshold, the program gets aborted automatically.. is there any system varibale i can configure so that i can run and check the programs for any period of time I want ? System becomes very slow when i run the program ? Why system kills the process automatically ? I was running the program , using KDE desktop theme and there were no other forground processes. OS is Fedora core 3. RAM is 256 MB. What alternatives I shall try to solve this ?

Is the program is getting aborted because of insufficient swap memory space, what shall i do ?

Please help.

Regards

Shinni