"Virtual Memory exhausted" message during compilation

[Victor Tsaran]

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

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacob Schmude" <jacobs at ncinter.net>
To: <speakup at 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
> >
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