From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Guenther Grau <Guenther.Grau@bk.bosch.de>
To: "Zhang, Eric" <Eric.Zhang@icn.siemens.com>
Cc: gdb@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: gdb virtual memory exhausted
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:00:00 -0000
Message-id: <36F10BF3.28CC627D@bk.bosch.de>
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X-SW-Source: 1999-q1/msg00138.html

"Zhang, Eric" wrote:
> I am running gdb on a SCO system and got:
> 
> gdb virtual memory exhausted.  Failed to allocated 4072 bytes memory.
> 
> I used swap -a to add 500,000 blocks of space.  But the problem
> existed.  Any suggestions?

Yes, maybe you need to call unlimit in the shell you start
gdb. This should help if you are using a csh/tcsh. I don't
know for bash/ksh.

  Guenther