out of virtual memory?

Katherine Minister Hosch kam at titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu
Sat Sep 30 06:45:07 AEST 1989


Hi all.  Thanks for all the responses in regard to my repeated watchdog
resets.  The machine that was doing that has started exhibiting other
forms of alsheimers', and so is going to get a complete overhaul.

I've got another problem, stranger than that, I think.  I am compiling ada
programs on a diskless 3/50, served by a 3/280 which has allocated 16 MB
of swap space to the 3/50.  The 3/50 has just 4 MB of main memory.  Upon
running a verdix ada debug session in one window, and compiling an ada
package in another, I got the following error:

Verdix Ada Compiler, Copyright 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987
Version 5.5 - Sun UNIX
Thu Mar 23 20:10:51 PST 1989 Sun 3 SunOS 4.0 (t)

File: /home/titan/kam/fsats/test.a
        compiled Fri Sep 29 13:41:02 1989
        by user kam

        floating point processor SOFTWARE


current soft limit: 251658240;   hard limit: 251658240

/home/titan/kam/fsats/test.a, line 11, char 15:fatal: Operating system denied v\irtual memory expansion to 6420479

Ada command  finished at Fri Sep 29 13:41:07

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?

Katherine Minister Hosch:		kam at titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu
Applied Research Laboratories		(512)-835-3148
University of Texas at Austin
P.O. Box 8029, Austin, TX  78713-8029



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