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From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
Subject: Re: [386bsd] Virtual memory exhausted. Do I need more swap?
Message-ID: <1992Aug29.034040.24736@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 03:40:40 GMT
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goran@astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback) writes:
: 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.

I had the same problem compiling petdingo at the bison.simple parser output
with lots of macros, using g++. I have no problems compiling gcc-2.2.2 using
gcc only(no g++). I have 16Mbyte RAM and 15Mbyte swap.
I tried to increase it by 7Mbyte more but cannot create additional swap 
partition using disklabel 0.1. Maybe disklabel 0.0 may work but I do not
have that copy any more.

: |> 
: |> Is there a setting with GCC which I should raise or what??
: 
: You have probably encountered a software limit on memory.
: 
: In csh (maybe also in the other shells, but I use csh (well, actually
: tcsh 8-) )) there is command named limit.  I'm not at my 386BSD computer
: now, so I'm not sure of the names,  but do limit and look for things that
: may be called: stacksize, datasize, and memoryuse. 
: Increase these values as wanted.

I had tried running as root, ash, csh, and bash without success.
I'll try raising other parameters.

--
Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
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