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Subject: Out of memory error during make buildworld
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>Number:         10796
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Out of memory error during make buildworld
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 25 18:10:00 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:    Sat Aug 21 21:47:24 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:  Sat Aug 21 21:49:20 PDT 1999
>Originator:     Ken Rogers
>Release:        3.0-Release
>Organization:
University of Kentucky
>Environment:
FreeBSD eisengard.home.net 3.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Oct 17 17:45:06 GMT 1998     jkh@kickme.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
Memory exhausted or Out of memory error when running make buildworld

last output is:

cc -fpic -DPIC -O -pipe -I/usr/obj/elf/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/libperl
-I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/libperl/../../../../contrib/perl5 -I/usr
/obj/elf/usr/src/tmp/usr/include -c
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/libperl/../../../../contrib/perl5/pp_ctl.c -o
pp_ctl.so
pp_ctl.so: could not read symbols: Memory exhausted
*** Error code 1

Stop.


>How-To-Repeat:
problem repeats with every attempt at make buildworld or make world
Even after a 'cd /usr/obj; chflags -R 0 .; rm -r *' and 'cd /usr/src; make clean; make clean'

>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: hoek 
State-Changed-When: Sat Aug 21 21:47:24 PDT 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
I think you know you know what this error means.  :-) 

You need to modify your user limits, possibly.  See login.conf(5), 
and the limit or ulimit section of your favourite manpage. 

This may be addressed in the FAQ, too.  (I don't know; it scertainly 
should be if it isn't...) 
>Unformatted:
