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From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: XV version 3.0
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 20:02:45 -0400
Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.386bsd.questions: 29-Oct-93 Re: XV version
3.0 by Nate Williams@bsd.coe.mo 
> >  My version of 386bsd, with it's gccosaurus 1.39 chokes on
> >the file tif_fax3.c because it runs out of virtual memory (I've got
> >8Mb of ram, 20Mb of swap) while reading the header file g3states.h,
> >which contains some *huge* initializers.

Are you sure that it is running out of paging space, and not that you have a
user limit on memory access.  Try limit, and see if it is set to a low
number, like 6 megs, which is the default (and which gcc out grows a lot
on bigger programs).  I often have to do a unlimit datasize, and now
have that in my
.[zc]shrc.

alex