Re: compiler woes on powerpc

["Cherry G. Mathew" <cherry.g.mathew%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 7/17/06, David Edelsohn <dje%watson.ibm.com@localhost> wrote:
> >>>>> Tim Rightnour writes:
>
> Tim> out of memory allocating 250000 bytes after a total of 134102464 bytes
>
> Tim> Is that not enough ram to build gcc anymore?  It seems a bit excessive.
>
>         There are lots of holes in the address space.  This usually means
> that you have process resource limits set too low.

sysctl -w proc.$PID.rlimit.datasize.soft=300000000

seems to do the trick for me. I have about 640Megs RAM, so there's not
much thrashing.

Thanks,

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~Cherry