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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: porting PCN
Date: 3 Dec 93 01:44:49
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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Message-ID: <CGD.93Dec3014449@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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In-reply-to: potsgl@saturn.wwc.edu's message of Fri, 3 Dec 1993 03:45:30 GMT
>While it is compiling we get an error saying that there is
>insufficient virtual memory. Does anyone know how to increase the size of
>your virtual memory without buying more ram? Is there some method of using
>symbolic links or something of the sort to increase the size of virtual
>memory?
what that really means is that the process grew too big, and therefore
further memory requests were denied.
if your shell is csh, you might try the 'unlimit' command, to raise
the process limits, before compiling.
cgd
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chris g. demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
smarter than your average clam.