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Subject: `Out of memory for cc1' in linux-2.2.4
From:	Russell Senior <seniorr@teleport.com>
Date:	24 Mar 1999 01:40:35 -0800


After compiling linux-2.2.4 and rebooting to it:

   russell@dalles[~] $ uname -a
   Linux dalles 2.2.4 #1 Tue Mar 23 19:26:05 PST 1999 i586 unknown

P133, with 96 meg RAM.

I have been seeing some `out of memory' messages this evening while
configuring/ compiling CLISP-1999-01-08 with gcc-2.8.1/glibc-2.1.
At the command line, I am seeing things like:

   out of memory for cc1
   gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 9

and in /var/adm/messages, the sort of messages as follow:

   Mar 23 22:23:35 dalles kernel:  
   Mar 23 22:23:35 dalles kernel: Out of memory for cc1. 
   Mar 23 22:25:09 dalles kernel: put_dirty_page: page already exists 
   Mar 23 22:25:09 dalles kernel: put_dirty_page: page already exists 
   Mar 23 22:25:09 dalles kernel:  
   Mar 23 22:25:09 dalles kernel: Out of memory for gcc. 
   Mar 23 22:25:09 dalles kernel:  
   Mar 23 22:25:09 dalles kernel: Out of memory for gcc. 
   Mar 23 22:33:25 dalles kernel:  
   Mar 23 22:33:25 dalles kernel: Out of memory for sh. 
   Mar 23 22:33:48 dalles kernel:  
   Mar 23 22:33:48 dalles kernel: Out of memory for sh. 
   Mar 23 22:33:50 dalles kernel:  
   Mar 23 22:33:50 dalles kernel: Out of memory for cc1. 
   Mar 23 22:50:50 dalles -- MARK --
   Mar 23 23:09:14 dalles kernel:  
   Mar 23 23:09:14 dalles kernel: Out of memory for lisp.run. 
   Mar 23 23:09:14 dalles kernel:  
   Mar 23 23:09:14 dalles kernel: Out of memory for lisp.run. 
   Mar 23 23:09:14 dalles kernel:  
   Mar 23 23:09:14 dalles kernel: Out of memory for lisp.run. 
   Mar 23 23:09:14 dalles kernel:  
   Mar 23 23:09:14 dalles kernel: Out of memory for lisp.run. 
   Mar 23 23:25:08 dalles kernel:  
   Mar 23 23:25:08 dalles kernel: Out of memory for lisp.run. 
   Mar 23 23:50:51 dalles -- MARK --

The messages seem to occur somewhat at random.  Rerunning `make' seems
to get me past the purported problem spots.

Additional configuration information available on request.

-- 
Russell Senior
seniorr@teleport.com

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