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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!nic.win.hookup.net!vertex.tor.hookup.net!nic.ott.hookup.net!pan.pscinc.ca!mcgrath From: mcgrath@pscinc.ca (Tom McGrath) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: virtual memory exhausted with GCC Date: 9 Jan 1997 02:30:24 GMT Organization: The PSC Group, Ottawa, CANADA Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5b1l80$adr$1@nic.ott.hookup.net> References: <5b09bm$l22$1@nic.ott.hookup.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pan.pscinc.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5553 Don't you hate when people answer there own posts. Well I RTFMed, in this case the FAQ. Setting unlimit datasize in the shell did the trick. tom Tom McGrath (mcgrath@pscinc.ca) wrote: : Hello world, : This is my first post to this group, I hope this is the right : place to ask a question! I get virtual memory exhausted when running : gcc on large files 3000 lines of c++ code. I have tried the obvious : reducing the number of active process, increasing the swap space.... : Has any body seen this before if so, do they have any advice? : The gory details! : I was using every thing from the 2.1 distribution cd. : Thanks Tom