On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 09:12:01PM -0500, J. Lewis Muir wrote: > On 9/23/14, 3:58 PM, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > >> Hmm, I just noticed the following error message on the machine's > >> console: > >> > >> UVM: pid 19753 (cc1), uid 1000 killed: out of swap > >> > >> So, maybe I am running out of memory? > > > > Yes. gcc can become really large sometimes ... > > OK, the machine had 256 MB of swap and 256 MB of RAM; I increased the > RAM to 512 MB, leaving the swap unchanged, and the build succeeded! > > I didn't realize a build took so much memory. Thanks for the help!
I have a machine with even less RAM, 128M, and I succeeded in building the system on it (although I would not do it again, since it took more than a day to complete.) Where I had trouble with running out of memory was in updating the binary package database with "pkgin". I simply added another 128M of swap and then it worked for me. -- Roy Bixler <[email protected]> "The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment." -- Richard P. Feynman
