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From: hansen@mips.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: "Not enough core" message. Help ....
Message-ID: <941@mips.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Feb-87 11:08:09 EST
Article-I.D.: mips.941
Posted: Tue Feb  3 11:08:09 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Feb-87 11:07:10 EST
References: <1003@ur-valhalla.UUCP>
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Keywords: VAX11/750, BSD4.2
Summary: 4.2 leaves you stuck at 6.5 Mb - upgrade to 4.3

In article <1003@ur-valhalla.UUCP>, badri@ur-valhalla.UUCP (Badri Lokanathan) writes:
> I even know where the error lies, from some debug messages that I put
> into the kernel. Apparently I have a swap map overflow; for those who
> have seen the interns of BSD4.2 kernel code, the limit is exceeded in
> /usr/sys/vax/vm_machdep.c:chksize: ctod(ds) = 12906 exceeds maxdmap = 12256.
> None of the defined hardlimits (MAXTSIZE, MAXDSIZE and MAXSSIZE) are
> exceeded.

BSD 4.2 has some hard limits at about 6.5 MegaBytes of data space,
that require kernel changes to get past. An upgrade to BSD 4.3 will
solve the problem, as the VM limits have been pushed up substantially.
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