From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 10:00:10 -0400 To: pavel.klinkovsky@gmail.com, 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <28d5b94e81a770e9521a1b80366b8892@brasstown.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: <3816729a-a9d5-4f63-9850-c7247edae37e@c16g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Kernel panic when compiling Go on native Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: cfd81940-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri Nov 2 09:44:43 EDT 2012, pavel.klinkovsky@gmail.com wrote: > > How much memory does your system have? > > - 512 MB RAM > - 512 MB swap > > > Changeset 14739 grew the Unicode collation tables > > in the exp/locale/collate package by a considerable > > amount. The compiler's memory usage now goes above > > 400 MB when building that package, almost 2.5x the > > amount used to compile the second heavyweight and > > 15x the average. > > I see. > I can confirm when the kernel panic occured I saw (in stats): > - full RAM > - small portion of swap occupied i might give the 9front kernel a go. i think that cinap spent some time trying to make swap work a little bit. i'd wonder though if there were some way to cut down the module so it doesn't take quite so much memory. even halving it would mean you could ditch swap. - erik