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Old   April 13, 2012, 16:00
Default solved issue of running out of virtual memory crashes
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I looked for this particular issue and nobody seems to have answered it.
The dreaded message: "This does not necessarily mean you have run out of virtual memory"...
Basically my SHM mesher would crash for large numbers of cells.
This seems to have fixed it:

On Ubuntu, Use this tutorial to increase the size of the swap partition or add a new one

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq
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