Not enough core: Summary

[badri at ur-valhalla.UUCP]

This is a summary of some of the messages that I received in response
to my query regarding "Out of core" messages.
(Reference: <1010 at ur-valhalla.UUCP>)

Several people suggested switching over to BSD 4.3 where the problem
is "apparently" fixed. This solution is in the offing ...

The fix that I made to BSD 4.2 to get it working were along the lines
suggested by Tom Quarles (private correspondence),
Chris Torek (<5433 at mimsy.UUCP>) and Don Speck (<1797 at cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>);
namely bump up DMMAX to 2048 and MAXDSIZ to 22496 by defining them in the
config file and remake every thing from scratch. It turned out that
/sys/vax/autoconf.c had DMMAX #defined to 1024, so the solution did not
work automatically.  I had to put in #ifndef DMMAX to get it to work.

While I am wasting time fixing the kernel, can somebody tell me
where dmmax is set to 0? It is declared to be type int in /sys/h/dmap.h and
is tested for its value in /sys/vax/autoconf.c, but is never explicitly 
initialised. Isn't this a violation of "good programming practice?"

Badri Lokanathan
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