Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 16:13:31 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: QBallLives <qballlives AT aol DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: :Memory Exhausted
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On 22 Mar 1998, QBallLives wrote:

> hmmm.... I compiled Allegro3 on a 486 w/ 20 megs of ram in about an hour and
> forty-five minutes....

That would mean that your system is *grossly* misconfigured.  Allegro 
takes about 8 minutes on a P166, so it should be about 25 minutes on 
i486.  Check your system configuration (disk cache, RAM drive, etc.).

> I'm not sure... but I think it's your available conventional memory that's
> giving you the problem....

That error message is only printed when virtual memory is exhausted.