dear all Until this morning ATHENA installed through mac ports on my computer (OS 10.9.5) was working rather good. However, I have tried to open a .prj file (too large apparently) and the ATHENA-PERL software froze. I quit and tried to relaunch ATHENA, but I had the following message this morning on the terminal window: perl5.16(1177,0x7fff76dad310) malloc: *** mach_vm_map(size=18446744071562072064) failed (error code=3) *** error: can't allocate region *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug Out of memory! Could someone tell me what I am supposed to do? Thanks a lot for your answer Best regards Emmanuelle MONTARGES-PELLETIER Chargée de Recherche CNRS LIEC Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Environnements Continentaux UMR 7360 CNRS Université de Lorraine 15 avenue du Charmois F-54500 Vandœuvre-lés-Nancy - France tel 33 (0)3 83 59 62 52 mob 33(0)6 31 33 10 30 Directrice de la Zone Atelier du bassin de la Moselle http://apps.ensic.inpl-nancy.fr/Zam/index_fr.html