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

Yaroslav Halchenko <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 15 Oct 2016, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > 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. 

> > That is true, however the amount of memory per 32-bit process is
> > unchanged and still limited to 2GB, so I doubt it will make any
> > change.

> The error message just tells that mmap() failed with ENOMEM,
> but looking at the hardware specs of the autobuilders I agree
> with you that my suggestion is not likely to help here.

we will discover relatively shortly... uploaded -3 which shouldn't use
--parallel on mipses
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