We never specify formally the memory requirements to running DC, because we made the assumption that people who wants to build images would do so on pretty powerful machines.
Just for reference, a while back, I am able to successfully build images using my laptop with 2G of memory. A lot of things have changed recently, so, I don't know what it really takes right now. My laptop with 4G of memory was able to build images just fine a month ago, I have not tried it recently. I have been building images on my other system with 6G of memory the last couple of days, and it works well. Please file a bug against the documentation for DC, so, we can spend the time to figure out what's the requirement, and have it documented formally. Thanks, --Karen On 03/24/10 13:31, Girish Moodalbail wrote: > Folks, > > Could somebody please let me know the memory requirements to run DC? > > distro_const has already failed on me several times since morning, due > to memory issues. I am running on a system with 2GB physical memory. > Does it require more than that? > > I see following messages on the terminal: > > bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable > bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable > bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable > bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable > bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable > bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable > bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable > bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable > bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable > > and in the detail log, I see > > pkg: There is not enough memory to complete the requested operation. > At least > 475MB of virtual memory was in use by this command before it ran out > of memory. > You must add more memory (swap or physical) or allow the system to > access more > existing memory, or quit other programs that may be consuming memory, > and try > the operation again. > > The document here > http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/dev/DistroConst/docinfo.html > doesn't talk about 'memory' requirements. > > thanks > ~Girish. > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
