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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!das-news.harvard.edu!honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!aw2t+ From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: XV version 3.0 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 20:02:45 -0400 Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 16 Message-ID: <kgoOwZu00iUxMCng1=@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: andrew.cmu.edu In-Reply-To: <2arvj7$ika@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.386bsd.questions: 29-Oct-93 Re: XV version 3.0 by Nate Williams@bsd.coe.mo > > My version of 386bsd, with it's gccosaurus 1.39 chokes on > >the file tif_fax3.c because it runs out of virtual memory (I've got > >8Mb of ram, 20Mb of swap) while reading the header file g3states.h, > >which contains some *huge* initializers. Are you sure that it is running out of paging space, and not that you have a user limit on memory access. Try limit, and see if it is set to a low number, like 6 megs, which is the default (and which gcc out grows a lot on bigger programs). I often have to do a unlimit datasize, and now have that in my .[zc]shrc. alex