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I'm compiling mythtv that I got from https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv on a fedora 20 64 bit machine with 1Gb ram, 60Gb hard drive. The 'make install' command stops with "virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory". I've googled around but I can't see a solution to this problem. If I do # ulimit-a I get
Quote:
# ulimit -a
core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority (-e) 0
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals (-i) 7761
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) 1024
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority (-r) 0
stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 7761
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks (-x) unlimited
I don't know what to do with these figures. I tried #ulimit -v 60000 but make install still gave the same error. I also tried #free -m
Agreed - cheap and simple.
Also looks like F20 assigns /tmp to tmpfs which would likely put more pressure on the RAM - maybe make /tmp disk-resident for the duration of the compile.
Mind you, a Gig is probably "minimal" these days for something like gnome or KDE.
A GB of memory should be enough... but not when using tmpfs (which takes up to half the physical memory by default). The problem is that the working files for the compiler are in /tmp... causing a double hit on memory.
A GB of memory should be enough... but not when using tmpfs (which takes up to half the physical memory by default). The problem is that the working files for the compiler are in /tmp... causing a double hit on memory.
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