From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from executioner.lis.net.au([203.35.83.3]) (4275 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 23:54:27 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from uucp by executioner.lis.net.au with local-rmail (Exim 2.05 #1) id 13fwgP-0002vq-00 (Debian); Mon, 2 Oct 2000 13:54:29 +1000 Received: from kerry by gotss.eu.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 13fwg5-0003J1-00 (Debian); Mon, 02 Oct 2000 14:54:09 +1100 Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:54:09 +1100 From: Kerry Hoath To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: "Virtual Memory exhausted" message during compilation Message-ID: <20001002145408.A12696@gotss.eu.org> References: <001d01c02c35$3bbb66c0$123c9ed8@wang> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <001d01c02c35$3bbb66c0$123c9ed8@wang>; from vtsaran@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu on Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 10:52:25PM -0700 List-Id: 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" > To: > 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/ > > > ******* ******* ******* > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- -- Kerry Hoath: kerry@gotss.eu.org Alternates: kerry@emusys.com.au kerry@gotss.spice.net.au or khoath@lis.net.au ICQ UIN: 62823451