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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Subject: Re: [386bsd] Virtual memory exhausted. Do I need more swap? References: <david.714981284@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au> Date: 31 Aug 92 08:38:27 GMT Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Sender: @unidui.uni-duisburg.de Message-ID: <veit.715250307@du9ds3> Lines: 31 In <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. You use the csh, don't you? Enter 'limit' and you see why. Enter 'limit datasize unlimited' and 'limit memoryuse unlimited'. I found this was a catch when I tried to compile X11. Holger -- | | / Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "No, my programs are not BUGGY, these are | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | just unexpected FEATURES"