In article <1992Apr21.021629.27327@news.iastate.edu> jwang@iastate.edu (Jing Wang) writes:
>Not too long ago, I was trying to use the command dd, but I got the following
>message back:
>
>dd: valloc failed.
>
>For example if I do this:
>
>%time dd bs=10240k count=1 if=/dev/sd0g of=/dev/null
>
>It gives the same message...
>
>What's the problem? I don't have immediate use of this command, but in case
>I need it in the future...so please help.
>
First of all, I have to thank all the people that responded...they are very
helpful and explicit. I really appreciate your kindness...
Anyway, the problem is that the swap size on my computer cannot get as large
as 10M at all. Since I am just a single user, I don't think it's necessary
to go through all the complications to change it....:)
Thanks again.
-Jing
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