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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6695 ; Tue, 12 Jan 93 07:04:15 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!nobody From: mattb@sdd.hp.com (Matt Bonner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: [386BSD] Solved: Virtual Memory Exhausted Date: 14 Jan 1993 18:52:02 GMT Organization: Hewlett-Packard, San Diego Division Lines: 29 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1j4coiINN937@hpsdlss3.sdd.hp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hpsdlg16.sdd.hp.com Keywords: virtual memory, swap, limit Well, someone finally offered the golden hint that solved all my problems. I posted a while ago asking how to fix virtual memory exhausted" errors I was getting during compiles, and received all sorts of help setting up swap space with disklabel and /etc/fstab from serini@dsi.unimi.it (Thanks Piero!). But after finally getting that configured, the problem remained. kym@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (R. Kym Horsell) suggested I get gcc 2.2.x from ref.tfs.com, which solved many of the problems, but not all. Finally yesterday, a post from karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) tipped me off to the limit/ulimit shell commands (for csh/bash, respectively). After raising the datasize limit (in csh), I was able to compile everything and run xbench to completion. (Amancio, I will send you my results soon.) Thank you all for all your help! In return, if anyone else is having problems, feel free to mail me instead of bothering all these kind souls further. (Hope I don't get flooded now!) NOTE: I am not claiming to be an expert; I'm nowhere close. But maybe I can help people avoid muddling through it as badly as I did. Cheers, Matt -- Matt Bonner | Email: mattb@sdd.hp.com Hewlett-Packard Company | Snail: 16399 West Bernardo Drive Ink-jet Components Division | San Diego, CA 92127-1899