"Not enough core" message

[Sebastian Schmitz]

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Hello my fruitcakes,
I have a little problem here which stumps me.
We have a VAX 785 running 4.2 with 8MB of Ram.
We also run fairly massive prolog interpreters here (cprolog
and muprolog). Ok, these  things are boundless and I have
already had to increase the kernel per process limits in order
to run them (we always got the "not enough core" message).
The problem was solved until more than three people use the
machine. Then if a big cprolog is running someone else will get
the "not enough core" message. Even if he only wants a dinky
little emacs. I wonder whats going on. 8 Meg is certainly not a
full VAX but certainly not a little amount of memory either.
Whatever happened to paging and all that good stuff ? What
became of paging ?
Anybody who knows the answer please mail me. I know that buying
more memory will solve and we have the money but the concept
bothers me.
Thanks,
-- 
  Love,
  Sebastian (Snoopy)

"You haven't done it, till you've done it with pointers !"

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