From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 6 11:14:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08318 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 11:14:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08303 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 11:14:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA28642; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 11:14:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 11:14:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Lane Holcombe cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VIRTUAL MEMORY EXCEEDED during make world ... In-Reply-To: <199810040058.TAA11528@dibbs.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Lane Holcombe wrote: > 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 Try running 'unlimit' first before starting make world, and/or hack /etc/login.conf, although I'll side with Mike and suggest a re-sup of your sources just in case it's a corrupted file sending as into a loop. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message