Robert Jung writes:
> Hi...
> First of all... thank you for your help, everything works fine, and this 
> only because you guys helped me out of the mess:-)
> 
> Yeah everything worked fine would be the better description:-(
> Now I'm having troubles during the kernel compile-process.
> I've downloaded the kernel sources, and did everything the manual told me 
> (MYKERNEL and so on..)
> 
> but every time I try to compile the kernel the process end with an error 
> during the step strip netbsd netbsd.gdb.
> 
> The strip program exits with the errormessage: Memory exhausted!
> But I have 16 Megs of RAM and 27Megs of swap space, can somebody help me out?

just do a:

 limit datasize unlimited
 limit stacksize unlimited

and give it another whirl... ('limit' will tell you what the various process/
stack/file limits are set to.  It's likely running into one of them and then
aborting...)

Later...

Greg Oster