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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 22:00:54 -0800
From: J Sloan <joe@tmsusa.com>
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MrChuoi wrote:

>I think there are something wrong in MM of -ac tree. I can't build & run my
>project (~100 source files) from inside JBuilder4 anymore. JBuilder always
>reports that "cannot allocate memory".
>
>My system:
>CPU: K6-III 500Mhz
>Mem: 128Mb
>Swap: 64Mb
>
Why so stingy on the swap space?

>
>Linux From Scratch 3.1
>
>Tested with:
>2.4.19-pre3: OK
>2.4.19-pre2-ac4: cannot allocate memory
>2.4.19-pre3-ac1: cannot allocate memory
>2.4.19-pre2aa*: OK
>2.4.19-pre3aa*: OK
>

I'd bet they are all on the borderline -
It may be that you are simply exhausting vm.

What if you make a decent swap partition,
say 512 MB or so, and try the tests again?

Joe






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