Why is (nb)ctfmerge failing when linking larger kernels???

[Greg A. Woods]

At Wed, 01 Jul 2020 17:57:08 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" <wo...@planix.ca> wrote:
Subject: weird occasional "Resource exhaustion" errors when linking 
GENERIC_KASLR
>
> I've been using a stock 9.0 amd64 install to build my -current tree and
> found it failing with a "Resource exhaustion" error (also "Out of
> memory") when linking the GENERIC_KASLR kernel.

So even in 9.99.64 ctfmerge fails, especially with the ALL kernel
(though I must admit I haven't tried to build an amd64 ALL kernel for
perhaps a year or so):

       link  ALL/netbsd
NetBSD 9.99.64 (ALL) #0: Thu Jul  2 17:29:25 PDT 2020
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
80120264        174291832       8122368 262534464       fa5f540 netbsd
ERROR: nbctfmerge: netbsd.ctf: Cannot finalize temp file: Resource exhaustion: 
Cannot allocate memory
--- netbsd ---
*** [netbsd] Error code 1

nbmake: stopped in 
/build/woods/xentastic/current-amd64-amd64-obj/build/src-current/sys/arch/amd64/compile/ALL
1 error

$ ulimit -a
time(cpu-seconds)    unlimited
file(blocks)         unlimited
coredump(blocks)     unlimited
data(kbytes)         8388608
stack(kbytes)        32768
lockedmem(kbytes)    512000
memory(kbytes)       4096000
nofiles(descriptors) 3404
processes            420
threads              2048
vmemory(kbytes)      2097152
sbsize(bytes)        unlimited

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