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From: "Victor Tsaran" <vtsaran@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: "Virtual Memory exhausted" message during compilation
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 00:56:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <006001c02c46$86c71220$123c9ed8@wang> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001002145408.A12696@gotss.eu.org>

Hi, Kerry!
This is version 2.2.16. Will try to upgrade tomorrow.
Best,
Vic

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have you thought of visiting Cybertsar's Internet Kingdom? It is still
alive!
Here is the URL:
http://nimbus.ocis.temple.edu/~vtsaran/
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry@gotss.eu.org>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: "Virtual Memory exhausted" message during compilation


> What kernel is this? The kernels have been experiencing vm strangeness
lately
> and aparently upgrading the kernel to 2.2.17 fixes many many of these out
of
> memory problems. The system isn't exactly out of memory; it just over
> commits pages or gets into a tis.
>
> Regards, Kerry.
> On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 10:52:25PM -0700, Victor Tsaran wrote:
> > See, Jacob, that's the thing. I did mkswap the /root/swapfile to be as
big
> > as 128MB, but the error still persists. Perhaps it needs to be even
larger?
> > I have 32MB of physical RAM.
> > Best,
> > Vic
> >
> > ******* ******* *******
> > have you thought of visiting Cybertsar's Internet Kingdom? It is still
> > alive!
> > Here is the URL:
> > http://nimbus.ocis.temple.edu/~vtsaran/
> > ******* ******* *******
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jacob Schmude" <jacobs@ncinter.net>
> > To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 12:16 PM
> > Subject: Re: "Virtual Memory exhausted" message during compilation
> >
> >
> > > Hi
> > > I've had this before. It seems to mean exactly what it says,
> > > virtual memory is full. How much ram and how much swap do you have?
Since
> > > bigslack uses UMSDOS for its fs, you're more likely to get this
> > > error. Make sure you have lots and lots of swap. If you can't create a
> > > swap partition, you'll need to use a swap file, but you need some sort
of
> > > swap space. Make it about 128MB to be safe.
> > >
> > > On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Victor Tsaran wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello, listers!
> > > > I was wondering if some of you know the remeedy or have any clues
asto
> > what
> > > > this message means in this context.
> > > > Earlier today I wrote that I am trying to compile Napster client on
a
> > > > Bigslack7.1-powered machine. In order for PERL to run the Napster
> > client, it
> > > > needs to support multiple threads. So, I started to recompile my
> > PERL5.60.
> > > > Everything goes fine through configuration stage, I can start Make.
> > However,
> > > > as soon as Make gets to queering Posix libraries, it always exits
with
> > the
> > > > following message:
> > > >
> > > > "Posix.o: Virtual memory exhausted".
> > > >
> > > > I thought initially that it has to do with the size of a swapfile.
So, I
> > > > increased it to 128MB, my system RAM is only 32 MB. However, the
message
> > > > persists.
> > > > I tried to compile PERL for both dynamic and static loading. Both
cases
> > > > fail.
> > > > Jacob, do you have any suggestions?
> > > > Anyone?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance,
> > > > Vic
> > > >
> > > > ******* ******* *******
> > > > have you thought of visiting Cybertsar's Internet Kingdom? It is
still
> > > > alive!
> > > > Here is the URL:
> > > > http://nimbus.ocis.temple.edu/~vtsaran/
> > > > ******* ******* *******
> > > >
> > > >
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Victor Tsaran
 ` Jacob Schmude
   ` Victor Tsaran
     ` Jacob Schmude
       ` Kirk Wood
     ` Kerry Hoath
       ` Victor Tsaran [this message]

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