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Darbio
Asked: 2010-12-08 16:30:23 +0800 CST

make out of memory

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Using gcc to make mono 2.8 from source on a CentOS 5 VPS with 128mb RAM, and it seems to be hanging. The result of free-m shows all memory has been used.

$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           128        126          1          0          0          1
-/+ buffers/cache:        124          3
Swap:          127        127          0

What can I do to ensure that mono get's built? Will increasing the swap size help this?

Thanks.

vps mono memory-usage make centos5

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  1. Best Answer

    You can increase swap size and potentially get this done. Maybe. It might just go into a spiral of thrashing death.

    But the better way is to abandon trying to build large software packages in that much memory. That's a really painfully small amount of RAM for a modern OS. Linux can be memory-light (that's why you can pay for a system like this, after all), but generally it's used that way in a special-purpose, well designed environment.

    Running gcc to build mono does not count.

    But no reason to give up completely: why not just build the package on a better-endowed CentOS 5 system, and transfer the result over?

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