Very Computer

I'm sure I must be missing something.

I have a Celeron 266 system running Red Hat 7.2.  It has a paltry 64
Mbytes memory, but that's all I happen to have at the moment.  I have
a roughly 256 Mbyte swap partition /dev/hda3, and a roughly 300 meg
file on which the system purports to be swapping.  Thus:

Filename                        Type            Size    Used  Priority
/dev/hda3                       partition       257032  24032   -1
/var/swap/swapfile         file            310852      0          -2

vmstat shows this:

   procs                      memory    swap          io     system
cpu
 r  b  w   swpd   free   buff  cache  si  so    bi    bo   in    cs
us  sy  id
 3  0  0  24032   7840  32180  35284   0   0     1     1    0     9
1   0   7

When I try to compile the ftape tools, the following happens:

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../intl -I../../include/ftape
-DLOCALED
IR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\"    -g -O2 -c ftfmt-tapelib.c
Virtual memory exhausted!
make[3]: *** [ftfmt-tapelib.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/roc/backup/ftape/ftape-tools-1.09/src/ftformat
'

I can't believe the system is running out of virtual memory.  It has a
half gig of swap online.  What am I missing?

        Ron

http://roc85.home.attbi.com
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-- Terry Pratchett

It was a ulimit problem.  For some bizarre reason, ulimit defaults to
8 megabytes virtual memory, which isn't enough to do very many things.

        Ron

On Sun, 07 Jul 2002 05:53:25 GMT, Ronald O. Christian