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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: virtual memory exhausted with GCC
Date: 9 Jan 1997 15:01:26 GMT
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mcgrath@pscinc.ca (Tom McGrath) wrote:

> This is my first post to this group, I hope this is the right
> place to ask a question! I get virtual memory exhausted when running
> gcc on large files 3000 lines of c++ code. I have tried the obvious
> reducing the number of active process, increasing the swap space....

In csh:

	limit datasize unlimited

In sh:

	ulimit -d unlimited

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j