Re: [arch-general] virtual memory exhausted

On 07/29/11 at 05:28pm, Jorge Almeida wrote:

I'm not sure this is an Arch issue, but I can't figure out what else can be.

I'm trying to compile non-Arch stuff in an arch host. I tried Binutils (of LFS) and Buildroot (of uclibc). Both failed with the "virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory" error. The computer is a one-user workstation, which wasn't doing anything else worth mentioning... I tried both as root and as common user, same problem...

# ulimit -a virtual memory (kbytes, -v) 58593

You might need more than ~57MB of address space to run the compilation. -- Byron Clark