Aljosha Papsch <li...@rpapsch.de> skribis: > On 21.10.2015 18:38, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
[...] >> How much memory does this machine have? > It got 4GB of RAM but none of swap. dmesg really shows something, > please see attachment. I'll try hooking up some swap and see how it > goes. > > I'm curious: How did you compile gcc in the past, where resources were > even more scarce? Did you always have a good load of swap for it to > succeed? I remember the rule "swap is 2 times ram", though in recent > years some are convinced that it worn off given the ever bigger RAM. I regularly build it on my laptop, which has 8G of RAM and little swap. The build machines behind hydra.gnu.org all have more than 4G of RAM, I think. > [ 2779.152334] genattrtab invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x280da, order=0, > oom_score_adj=0 Indeed, ‘genattrtab’ is a program in GCC used when building it. It’s a problem that it needs so much memory. I would suggest reporting it if nobody did that already. Thanks, Ludo’.
