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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 20:12:44 +0200
From: Mark Huizer <xaa@stack.nl>
To: sfuqua@fuquasc.wab.wku.edu
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Subject: Re: kaffe and login.conf
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> The login.conf file from the cdrom 3.0 causes kaffe to die and dump
> core with a message about the "heapsize not set", or something of that
> nature, on both the 3.0 and 2.2.2.  I have the LD_LIBRARY_PATH set, as
> mentioned in bug 3383, and the kaffe works fine on 2.2.2 if I remove
> the login.conf file from /etc.  I haven't had a chance to see if
> removing login.conf will let kaffe work on 3.0.  Have I missed a
> parameter I need to set in login.conf in order to run kaffe?
> 

It's a bit weird yes :-) It just starts with allocating 16Mb to run its heap
on :-( I think it could be changed in the source to a lower value (12Mb)
but well, it's still quite a lot

mark Huizer