[arch-general] virtual memory exhausted

[Mauro Santos]

On 29-07-2011 22:50, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Byron Clark <byron at theclarkfamily.name> wrote:
>> On 07/29/11 at 05:28pm, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> 
>>> #  ulimit -a
>>> virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) 58593
>>
>> You might need more than ~57MB of address space to run the compilation.
>>
> Yes, although I have no idea of what values would be right. Anyway,
> "unlimited" does it.
> Thanks
> 
> JA
> 

Are you sure you haven't personalized that? 'ulimit -v' says unlimited
here and I haven't changed that config from arch's default.

'ulimit -u unlimited' might be a bad idea, if anything goes haywire and
starts spawning threads it can crash your machine very quickly (think
fork bomb), even the default value seems to be too much for normal usage.

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Mauro Santos