Problems with emacs (or Memory ??)
Gilbert Chan
gichan at blake.u.washington.edu
Tue Jul 31 21:36:50 AEST 1990
I'm posting this message for a friend, please direct all your responses
to him at bchan at ddn-eur.ddn.mil
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I downloaded a binary copy of epoch.tar.z from sequent.kent.edu.
When I tried to run emacs using emacs -nw (as described in the README file)
on a Gateway 33-386 (ASIC Micronic motherboard) with 4 Meg of RAM +
150 Meg CDC HD running AT&T System V3.2.2, I got an error message "(12) bad
system call - core dump". [I don't have a working X installed on my
system, I just want to use emacs.]
I wrote a simple program to print system error numbers and error messages.
Error #12 relates to "Not enough space". Is that mean that I don't have
enough memory? Can anyone tell me what's going on?
I also got an error message "file too large" when I tried to uncompress
large files (> 1.2Meg compressed) while the same file uncompressed fine
on a Sun Sparc WS. I also tried compiling the compress.c (from Simtel20)
using different -DUSERMEM=xxxx. The compress program works fine on smaller
files and bombs on the big ones. Is that a way to assign memory ceiling on
virtual memory under System V so that it can fool the sysem with more
RAM?
You helps are greatly appreciated,
Brian
bchan at ddn-eur.ddn.mil
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