Subject: Re: make runs out of memory in libc... Is there a good fix?
To: None <seebs@solon.com>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/27/1997 11:06:19
> Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 10:30:02 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com>
> This actually only happens on my sun3. I can ulimit -d unlimited,
> and all is well, but this isn't really ideal, IMHO. Is there a
> way we could break libc down a bit, internally at least, so this
> doesn't happen? Or is there a way to make make(1) be more memory
> efficient?
Don't worry about it. I've already bumped-up the DFLDSIZ value
in vmparam.h which allows make to build libc without problems.
The new default maxdatasize will be 16MB.
#define DFLDSIZ (16*1024*1024) /* initial data size limit */
The build of libc needs somewhere between 8 and 12 MB of data.
Gordon