On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 01:27:35PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > This is current/amd64. Unlike in previous versions, > some memory-heavy processes (such as in building some > big port) get killed with > > UVM: pid 11422 (cc1plus), uid 0 killed: out of swap > > On this machine, I have _no_ swap. However, the machine has > 1G RAM, and most of it is free in the moment this happens. > > In fact, occasionaly, spawning a new xterm fails like this, > even if there is nothing else happening and there is nearly > 1G of free RAM. > > Has something changed in this respect? > Do I _have_ to have swap?
1G of ram is definitely not enough to build large ports on amd64. Everything mozilla-related, for instance, goes up to 2G and more while linking.
