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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: out of virtual memory?
Keywords: Miscellaneous
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Date: 4 Oct 89 21:09:38 GMT
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In article <1901@brazos.Rice.edu> kam@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Katherine Minister Hosch) writes:
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>Has anyone ever seen/heard of running out of virtual memory?  The program
>in the debug window is 319488 KB, and the program being compiled is itself
>just 6545 bytes (but includes some standard and additional packages --
>maybe another 100K.)  Any ideas?
>

Yeah, increase your swap. 16 Mb is not much when you run suntools and
possibly some other things. To check your current swap utilization, do

pstat -T

If you are at all close, then that is your problem. Once you run out of
swap, thats it, you can't get memory anywhere else.

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