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

On 2016-10-15 11:00, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> 
> 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

Thanks for the upload. Can you please however disable --parallel only on
mips and mipsel? mips64el is a 64-bit architecture and is not affected
by this issue. Thanks.

Aurelien