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From: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Subject: Re: GCC: Virtual memory exhausted error?
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.134416.1527@doe.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project, University of Toronto
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 13:44:16 GMT


In <1991Mar17.185002.8821@uwovax.uwo.ca>, Eric Smith writes:
> In article <0bsiSby00VADAIpl4O@andrew.cmu.edu>, es2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Stuyvesant) writes:
> > I'm running gcc from RAMdisk on my 4 Mb system, and am playing a
> > balancing game between disk space and memory.  I have been getting an
> > error from GCC, namely "Virtual memory exhausted."  Does this really
> > mean "disk space exhausted," as it seems to imply, or does it mean "not
> > enough memory?"  It doesn't seem to matter which version of gcc I use,
> > be it 1.37 or 1.39.
> > 
> It means "Real memory exhausted" on the ST, since we don't have any
> virtual memory. (Although if you have a TT, and write the necessary
> software, this could change...)

It might also mean that you are hitting the 40(+) folder limit. Try
increasing the number of folders available with folrxx.prg (or you
hard-disk driver) and see if the problem disappears.

David

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