many thanks to those who responded
especially
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
The problem was fixed with the following things
create a stanza(4) file containing the following
# more vm.stanza
vm:
vm-maxvas = 2147483648
vm-maxwire = 268435456
vm-vpagemax = 2147483648
Then a
# sysconfigdb -a -f vm.stanza vm
A quick reboot
then not to forget the shell level commands
dcpaxr.eksystems.com> limit datasize 2097152 kbytes
dcpaxr.eksystems.com> limit stacksize 32768 kbytes
dcpaxr.eksystems.com> limit
cputime unlimited
filesize unlimited
datasize 2097152 kbytes
stacksize 32768 kbytes
coredumpsize unlimited
memoryuse 510000 kbytes
vmemoryuse 1048576 kbytes
descriptors 4096
dcpaxr.eksystems.com> cc -c dcp_rul1708.c
dcpaxr.eksystems.com>
and all was well
Received on Fri Sep 20 1996 - 18:22:33 NZST