Re: Compiling Gnome ?

[Pascal Hofstee <gnome Wit401305 student utwente nl>]

On 19 Jul 1998, Tom Tromey wrote:

> Pascal> I have 32 MB RAM and a Swap Partition of 128 MB (which the
> Pascal> compile doesn't fully use). I think that ought to be enough.
> 
> What really matters it not the total amount of memory, but the amount
> available to the compilation.
> 
> If you are running a lot of processes, then in practice you'll have
> less left for the compile.
> 
> Also, you might have limits set that prevent processes from growing
> "too large".  If you use bash, you can use "ulimit -a" to see the
> limits.

Thanks for that ulimit command ... that's indeed (probably) the problem.
How can I 'disable' the limits ?

Pascal