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From: othman@ntrc25.ntrc.ntu.ac.sg (othman (EEE/Div 4))
Subject: Re: [386BSD] Here is the answer, Re: out of mem
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Randy Suess (randy@chinet.chi.il.us) wrote:
: In article <C0t6r1.6KD@NeoSoft.com> karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
: >In article <1993Jan12.151341.24515@data-io.com> bachesta@pugsley.Data-IO.COM (Jim Bachesta) writes:
: >>I have been following the response on your posting. It seems that people have 
: >>gone off on the wrong tangent on ulimit. I have seen this problem with virtual
: >>memory. I have 10 Megs of Ram and 30 Megs of swap. I am unable to compile motif
: >>I am sure it has nothing to do with the ulimit.
: >With bash on Berkeley the ulimit command does much more than set the max
: >size of a disk file.
: 
: 	Sigh.  This is not a ulimit problem.  All shells have been
: 	tried (/bin/sh is bourne shell, correct?) including real ksh
: 	setting all possible parameters at highest level.  Problem
: 	still occurs.  This makes 386bsd unusable.  It does amaze me
: 	however that no one else seems to have this problem.
Out of memory means out of temporary disk space.
Out of virtual memory means out of RAM and Swap space.

I met these problems while compiling xfishtank.

I hop this helps.


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Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
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