Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 18:55:21 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: lane@dibbs.net Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VIRTUAL MEMORY EXCEEDED during make world ... Message-ID: <199810040155.SAA00722@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Sep 1998 03:56:54 -0000." <199810040058.TAA11528@dibbs.net>
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> How do I fix that? > > This is my first time to "make world," 'cause, (I wanna be real > cautious about entering into a new world), and my 486DX churned away > for 9.75 hours on the STABLE release ... then it stopped churning and > just sat for about an hour ... (I raked the leaves in my yard while > my computer did most of the work, but I checked it periodically ... > then ... nothing ... for about 1 hour)... Then: BOOM! > > as[.c] in malloc(): warning: recursive call\n > Fatal error: virtual memory exceeded > > Is it possible to increase my swap partition ... and would this be of > any use to me in this situation? I've got about 1GIG free on /usr, > so space isn't the problem (I don't think, anyway), it just seems > that I don't have enough space allocated for swapping ... No, the "virtual memory exhausted" message is a (bad) error message from as(1). The real error is the one above it, where as(1) has attempted to call malloc() from a signal handler. It may have been trying to print an error message or something similar. Sounds like you might have run into a pathalogical overwork case. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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