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From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: [386bsd] Virtual memory exhausted. Do I need more swap?
References: <david.714981284@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au>
Date: 31 Aug 92 08:38:27 GMT
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In <david.714981284@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au> david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc) writes:

>When compiling some programs with GCC, I get the message 'virtual memory
>exhausted'. I have 40Meg virtual memory, so I am sure that is not the problem.

>Is there a setting with GCC which I should raise or what??

>Thanks.

>--
>David Le Blanc                         :
>Email: david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au : `Sort of a cross between a Jaguar
>CSIRO Division of Geomechanics,	       :  and a freight train.' the Alien
>P.O. Box 54 Mt Waverley 3149	       : in Alien^3.

You use the csh, don't you?

Enter 'limit' and you see why.
Enter 
'limit datasize unlimited' and
'limit memoryuse unlimited'.

I found this was a catch when I tried to compile X11.

Holger

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