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- From: kientzle@beirut.berkeley.edu (Tim Kientzle)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
- Subject: Re: Need ideas on gpp problems
- Date: 17 Dec 1992 17:25:08 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <1992Dec4.150851.1@skyler.mavd.honeywell.com> magnuson@skyler.mavd.honeywell.com (Randy Magnuson) writes:
- >I just downloaded gcc from cabrales and am having problems with gpp.
- >gpp: Can't fork 'cc1plus'.Error #000:237 (E$NoRAM) No RAM Available.
- >According to mfree, I have about 1.5 Mb free RAM.
- >
- Memory fragmentation. I've found that besides the total amount of
- free RAM, another relevant statistic is the largest block returned
- by "mfree -e". As someone pointed out, cc1plus is over 800k, so
- unless you have an 800k block of free memory, any attempt to run
- cc1plus will fail. Sometimes rebooting and judiciously terminating
- programs can give you a big block of contiguous memory.
- GNU software is infamous for their "infinite memory" assumption.
-
- - Tim Kientzle
-