[arch-general] virtual memory exhausted

[Byron Clark]

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.

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Byron Clark