On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:51:29AM +0000, Traiano Welcome wrote: > > >Another question worth asking: how much memory/swap does the machine > >have? If FreeBSD runs short of memory, it will start killing > >processes. > > Hi Frank > > As follows: > > Mem: 96M Active, 286M Inact, 224M Wired, 213M Buf, 1368M Free > Swap: 4094M Total, 4094M Free > > Note that this is FreeBSD system is installed in a Vmware VM. No swap > partition is configured as I expected the system to run entirely with RAM > as managed by the Vmware hypervisor and resource management technology. > Note that this machine is currently doing nothing else other than my > attempts at make buildworld. >
Hi Traiano, That looks OK. The only other thing I can think of is testing your memory with sysutils/memtest. It's unusual for it to die with SIGKILL though. Still it's worth ruling it out. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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