In message <19960621.222851.41@RiscPC.fernuni-hagen.de>,
     Thomas Hoenl wrote:

> 
> - did anyone manage to compile gnuchess 4.0?
>   I tried it with cc263 and cc272. I got a very confusing
>   error message: "out of virtual memory"

Yup, gnuchess compiled ok for me a few months ago. 
You could try 

   limit datasize 25m
   
to increase the amount of memory that is allowed in a shell process. The
command should be done in the shell in which you want to compile
gnuchess. I think the default datasize is 16 MB


>   Maybe there is some kind of endless loop?
>   I have 26 Meg and 25 Meg swap space.
>   xboard compiled successfully.
> - Is there a simple command, which lets me see, if
>   the swap is working properly? The 24 Meg are reported
>   during the boot phase. I tried to add a second swap
>   slice on a additional drive, but it seems that it is
>   not working (adding a line in /etc/fstab).

Let gnuchess play vs itself and you should see a lot of 
swapping going on :)
I did that once. Each invocation of gnuchess grabbed 13 MB memory.

> 
> Bye
>    Thomas
>    

Regards,
   Stefan

-- 
Stefan Voss
(voss@yoda.in-berlin.de)