> > Appears to be a memory/swap related problem. Open up another tty and run
> > 'top' while the make is going on, and watch your total free memory and your
> > total free swap......they might get too small for cc to run
> > successfully. (VM is the virtual memory driver)
>
> Tried that; I did some testing in real-time with the folks in
> #debian-devel. It appears to be a problem with the kernel VM handler
> (perhaps ppc specific) in 2.2.18pre21.
> memory : 56MB
>
> 56MB ain't a lot but it should be plenty for almost any compile.
How about swap, and how much VM did the compiler actually take? The error
message looks like the kernel ran into trouble swapping out pages.
I haven't tried pre21 but pre18 had no such trouble I could notice ...
Michael
