You might want to try 'unlimit datasize' before the compile.	


		David/abs

  Personally, I have always found work levels to be self regulating.
   Excessive work will induce repeated periods of unconsciousness.
           (I believe these are referred to as 'sleep'...)

On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Tim Rightnour wrote:

> Awhile ago I tried compiling WINE, and got the curious error message "virtual
> memory exhausted"  I thought this meant I was out of swap, seeing as I had
> about 4 netscapes Xemacs and a host of other memory killers loaded.  I killed
> them all, no effect, quit X.. no effect.. Finally ran the compile in the
> background.. watched the /tmp dir, and the swap.. both had plenty of room..
> vmstat seemed happy too.  
> 
> Just a few nights ago i got this while building KDE:
> Making all in kioslave
> c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/qt/include
> -I/usr/X11R6/include  -O2 -Wall -c kfmgui.cpp
> In file included from kfmgui.cpp:26:
> kfmprops.h:292: virtual memory exhausted
> *** Error code 1
> 
> If I am running out of something.. how do I prevent that?
> 
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> Tim Rightnour    -  root@garbled.futureone.com
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