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 ******* ******* ******* have you thought of visiting Cybertsar's Internet Kingdom? It is still alive! Here is the URL: http://nimbus.ocis.temple.edu/~vtsaran/ ******* ******* ******* ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Schmude" <jacobs@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > > > > ******* ******* ******* > > have you thought of visiting Cybertsar's Internet Kingdom? It is still > > alive! > > Here is the URL: > > http://nimbus.ocis.temple.edu/~vtsaran/ > > ******* ******* ******* > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
