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
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