gdb virtual memory exhausted

[Guenther Grau]

"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