From: epa AT datcon DOT co DOT uk (Ed Avis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: not enough virtual memory (0/1)
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 14:18:22 GMT
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On Fri, 21 Nov 1997 02:11:11 GMT, shaka AT innotts DOT co DOT uk (Shaka Zulu)
wrote:

>hi 
>i tried all the suggestions for setting up my computer for djgcc
>(486dx2 16mb at least 400 mb free on my scsi hard disk)
>and for small source files , the compiler works fine
>but for say a 600 Kb c file e.g. the wam.c produced by binprolog
>or a large distribution with a few hundred small c files 
>e.g. clicc065 runtime library rtl.a
>the compiler return with the virtual memory exhausted message
>my smartdrv is set to 10Mb cache

Uh... perhaps you should try 2MB or so...
Having such an enormous cache can actually make disk access *slower*
since the entire 10MB must be checked before the disk is accessed.

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Ed Avis