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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!decwrl!olivea!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!olymp!boss1!juengst From: juengst@boss1.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386bsd] Virtual memory exhausted. Do I need more swap? Message-ID: <1992Aug28.190748.11004@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> Date: 28 Aug 92 19:07:48 GMT References: <david.714981284@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au> Sender: juengst@boss1 (Henry G. Juengst) Organization: Universit"at Bonn, Informatikinstitut, R"omerstr 154, W-5300 Bonn 1 Lines: 30 In article <david.714981284@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au>, david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc) writes: > When compiling some programs with GCC, I get the message 'virtual memory > exhausted'. I have 40Meg virtual memory, so I am sure that is not the problem. > > Is there a setting with GCC which I should raise or what?? > > Thanks. > > -- > David Le Blanc : > Email: david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au : `Sort of a cross between a Jaguar > CSIRO Division of Geomechanics, : and a freight train.' the Alien > P.O. Box 54 Mt Waverley 3149 : in Alien^3. I'm sure it's a limit problem. Use csh to set 'ulimit -h' (as root) and 'ulimit' or 'limit -h' / 'limit' to set a acceptable limit. Then start your make again (as child process of the csh process). This is a problem you will also find, if you try to start a XWindows program which needs large resources. Your application fails, but the reason is because your X (X386) was started with small limits. Henry -- juengst@boss1.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.221.30] juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.221.12] juengst@pib1.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.221.2] (strange particle) I'm only speaking for myself, but not for anybody else !