On 03/24/10 04:31 PM, 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 message actually indicates it's pkg that is running out of memory, so this is somewhat out of DC's control. This has been an issue with upgrades on smaller machines recently, but first I've heard of DC running out. > The document here > http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/dev/DistroConst/docinfo.html > doesn't talk about 'memory' requirements. > Typically, there aren't, but then again it mostly gets run on build machines that have a lot more memory than 2 GB. I'd try adding swap, getting rid of other big processes that may be running as well, or use a bigger machine. Dave
