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From: Bill&Virginia Hodges <hodges@oz.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc
Subject: NetBSD-1.2 i386 running out of virtual memory
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 20:04:49 -0800
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Several applications including gdb stop due to
exhausing virtual memory.  I am confused on several
issues.
1) due to the fact that I have 40meg real memory
the tasks should not even be using virtual memory
Should I specify something in kernel build like 
SHMMAXPAGES or EXTMEM_SIZE or whatever?????
 

2)  I do not know how to change the virtual memory allocation.

Is it a kernel config parameter?

Thanks,

Bill