Re: virtual memory exhausted

[Jan Steffens <jan.steffens@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@xxxxxxxxx> 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...
>
> #  pacman -Q gcc
> gcc 4.6.1-2
>
> #  cat /proc/meminfo
> MemTotal:        2056484 kB
> MemFree:         1356260 kB
> Buffers:           74324 kB
> Cached:           551824 kB
> SwapCached:            0 kB
> Active:           148888 kB
> Inactive:         506268 kB
> Active(anon):      10624 kB
> Inactive(anon):     5716 kB
> Active(file):     138264 kB
> Inactive(file):   500552 kB
> Unevictable:           0 kB
> Mlocked:               0 kB
> HighTotal:       1178888 kB
> HighFree:         593112 kB
> LowTotal:         877596 kB
> LowFree:          763148 kB
> SwapTotal:        996024 kB
> SwapFree:         996024 kBDirty:                84 kB
> Writeback:             0 kB
> AnonPages:         10592 kB
> Mapped:             5868 kB
> Shmem:              5748 kB
> Slab:              31360 kB
> SReclaimable:      25156 kB
> SUnreclaim:         6204 kB
> KernelStack:        1112 kB
> PageTables:         1476 kB
> NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
> Bounce:                0 kB
> WritebackTmp:          0 kB
> CommitLimit:     2024264 kB
> Committed_AS:      61648 kB
> VmallocTotal:     122880 kB
> VmallocUsed:       14672 kB
> VmallocChunk:      80164 kB
> HardwareCorrupted:     0 kB
> AnonHugePages:         0 kB
> HugePages_Total:       0
> HugePages_Free:        0
> HugePages_Rsvd:        0
> HugePages_Surp:        0
> Hugepagesize:       4096 kB
> DirectMap4k:       20472 kB
> DirectMap4M:      888832 kB
>
> #  ulimit -a
> core file size          (blocks, -c) 0
> data seg size           (kbytes, -d) 58593
> scheduling priority             (-e) 0
> file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
> pending signals                 (-i) 16046
> max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 64
> max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
> open files                      (-n) 1024
> pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 8
> POSIX message queues     (bytes, -q) 819200
> real-time priority              (-r) 0
> stack size              (kbytes, -s) 58593
> cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
> max user processes              (-u) 16046
> virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) 58593
> file locks                      (-x) unlimited
>
>
> Maybe there is some arch-specific configuring to do? I have no idea
> whether these limit parameters require tweaking...
>
>
>
> TIA
>
> Jorge Almeida
>

Add a few gigabytes of swap, if you can. If that doesn't work, try
running x86_64, if you don't.