From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 07:28:32 -0500
From: Nigel Roles ngr@symbionics.co.uk
Subject: Can't mk 9pc
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> I've been trying to apply the latest updates (816407398) to 
> /sys/src/9/pc and I've run into a problem. 
>    The extraction and creation of the updated files goes smoothly. 
> When I use "mk" on the patched source, the compilation goes off 
> without a hitch. During linking, however, Plan 9 gives up the ghost 
> and gives me the message "Out of memory". My Pentium PC has 16 MB of
> RAM. Shouldn't that be enough to link 9pc?
>    Any ideas?
> 

16Mb is not enough on it's own, since 8l can take 14Mb (well it is
optimised for a well endowed shared compute server). You would need 
24Mb to link without swapping. The "Out of memory" message is the 
result of not having a swap partition selected, so check that out.