"Virtual Memory exhausted" message during compilation

[Jacob Schmude]

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
> 
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