I also started to be afraid. I have only 8Gb in my 64bit laptop and I'm currently replacing the server (not because of the symptoms) to core-i7 with 16Gb of RAM. How long will it be enough if 3.6Gb on a 32bit already too small? -- dr Tóth Attila, Radiológus, 06-20-825-8057 Attila Toth MD, Radiologist, +36-20-825-8057
2012.Szeptember 7.(P) 14:16 időpontban "Tóth Attila" ezt írta: > I have a 32-bit (Athlon MP) machine running Hardened Gentoo. The system > has 4Gb of RAM, but it only sees around 3.6Gb due to hardware reasons. > > Recently I couldn't upgrade either thunderbird or seamonkey, because a the > most important linking dies with this error message: > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.6.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: > failed to set dynamic section sizes: Memory exhausted > > The linker process consumes nearly one third of the system memory. The top > virtual memory consumption is around 35.9% for a moment before > termination, but I couldn't capture it. Here is how it stays for a minute > before the process dies (taken from top): > 10263 root 20 0 1176m 1.1g 2668 R 100 31.9 1:11.82 ld > > In the mean time, top also shows, that we have still a lot of memory to > use: > Mem: 3606828k total, 3164612k used, 442216k free, 110976k buffers > Swap: 4530136k total, 0k used, 4530136k free, 1109312k cached > No swapping. > > I tried it right after a fresh reboot. > > 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) 28178 > 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) 28178 > virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited > file locks (-x) unlimited > > Omitting "-pipe" from CFLAGS didn't help. What else can I try to compile > these binaries? Are there any PaX or Grsec kernel options with a potential > influence? > Should I accept, that I cannot compile thunderbird or seamonkey on a 32bit > architecture having 4G of RAM these days? > > If anybody have an idea, please don't hesitate. > > Regards: > Dwokfur > -- > dr Tóth Attila, Radiológus, 06-20-825-8057 > Attila Toth MD, Radiologist, +36-20-825-8057 > > >
