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From: raeburn@cambridge.cygnus.com (Ken Raeburn)
Subject: Re: Virtual memory exhausted
In-Reply-To: tj2n+@andrew.cmu.edu's message of 12 Aug 92 06:43:27 GMT
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In article <seWGCD600WB4Q470Vw@andrew.cmu.edu> tj2n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Tao Jiang) writes:

   Hi, I tried to compile a program today but failed. The error
   is that the virtual memory exhausted. Anyone had this problem before?
   Any hints?

Use csh, and use its "unlimit" built-in.  If that doesn't help, try
getting rid of large unnecessary processes.  If that doesn't help,
repartition your disk to add more swap space.