You might try just increasing the memory you'll let 1 process get.  To see
current settings (under tcsh), use 'limit'.  For example on my MacIIci, I
see:

zaxxon-% limit
cputime         unlimited
filesize        unlimited
datasize        16384 kbytes
stacksize       512 kbytes
coredumpsize    unlimited
memoryuse       27996 kbytes
descriptors     64 
memorylocked    9332 kbytes
maxproc         80 

the 16Mb data size is too small for some really big things so something
like

limit datasize 64000

or 

ulimit datasize

may help.

-Dan


On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 bob@kunk.jriver.com wrote:

> While trying to compile kde on a Performa 575 with 36 megs of ram and 72
> megs swap, I get...
> 
> ----
> Making all in kab
> gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/pkgsrc/x11/kdelibs/work/kdelibs-1.1.1/kab'
> /usr/pkg/bin/pkglibtool-1.2p1 --cplusplus --install-la --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../kdecore -I../kdeui -I../kfile -I../kfmlib -I/usr/X11R6/include/qt -I/usr/X11R6/include    -O2 -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/pkg/include -c addressbook.cc
> g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../kdecore -I../kdeui -I../kfile -I../kfmlib -I/usr/X11R6/include/qt -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2 -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/pkg/include -c -fPIC -DPIC addressbook.cc
> addressbook.cc: In method `bool AddressBook::nameOfField(const class string &, class string &)':
> addressbook.cc:1237: virtual memory exhausted
> gmake[2]: *** [addressbook.lo] Error 1
> ---
> 
> If I go to verbose mode on g++ I get
> 
> ---
>  /usr/libexec/cc1plus /tmp/ccLuJYa6.ii -quiet -dumpbase addressbook.cc -O2 -version -fPIC -o /tmp/ccFcPQKc.s
> GNU C++ version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release) (m68k-netbsd) compiled by GNU C version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release).
> addressbook.cc: In method `bool AddressBook::nameOfField(const class string &, class string &)':
> addressbook.cc:1237: virtual memory exhausted
> ---
> 
> However, if I remove the -O2 from the compile line...
> 
> ---
>  /usr/libexec/cc1plus /tmp/ccxrctPz.ii -quiet -dumpbase addressbook.cc -version -fPIC -o /tmp/ccjkTllC.s
> GNU C++ version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release) (m68k-netbsd) compiled by GNU C version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release).
>  as -k -K -o addressbook.o /tmp/ccjkTllC.s
> ---
> 
> It works
> 
> Bob
> -- 
> Robert E. Brose II    N0QBJ
> http://www.jriver.com/~bob/
> bob@kunk.jriver.com
>