Re: how to deal with "virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory"?

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 08:28:28PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> Hi MIPS gurus,
> 
> We have
> Bug#837403: connectome-workbench: FTBFS with bindnow and PIE
> due to inability to build that package on mips
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=connectome-workbench&arch=mips&ver=1.2.3-2&stamp=1473733739
> or mipsel
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=connectome-workbench&arch=mipsel&ver=1.2.3-2&stamp=1473733554
> 
> both of which fail with
> 
> "virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory"
> 
> What would be your recommendation -- demand removing mips* from
> supported architectures or there is a chance... ? ;)

The build log says
  make -j4

This is due to the following in debian/rules:
  dh $@ --parallel --sourcedirectory=src

Running 4 instances of the compiler in parallel can quadruple
the memory usage. 

Does the build succeed when you make that non-parallel on mips?

> Please CC us in reply

cu
Adrian