On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:29:29 -0800 Justin Mattock <justinmatt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > I'm not sure how to handle this, > while compiling firefox-3.6b1.source > I get this with the default compiling options, > as well as custom: > > ... > > active_anon:2360492kB inactive_anon:590196kB active_file:84kB 2.8GB of anonymous memory > [ 532.942508] Free swap = 0kB > [ 532.942510] Total swap = 431632kB 430MB of swap, all used up. That's a genuine OOM. Something (presumably cc1plus) has consumed waaaay too much memory, quite possibly leaked it. It would help if the oom-killer were to print some information about the oom-killed process's memory footprint.