On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 01:27:35PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote:
> This is current/amd64. Unlike in previous versions,
> some memory-heavy processes (such as in building some
> big port) get killed with
>
> UVM: pid 11422 (cc1plus), uid 0 killed: out of swap
>
> On this machine, I have _no_ swap. However, the machine has
> 1G RAM, and most of it is free in the moment this happens.
>
> In fact, occasionaly, spawning a new xterm fails like this,
> even if there is nothing else happening and there is nearly
> 1G of free RAM.
>
> Has something changed in this respect?
> Do I _have_ to have swap?
[snip]
> UVM: pid 17950 (cc1plus), uid 0 killed: out of swap
> UVM: pid 11442 (cc1plus), uid 0 killed: out of swap
cc1plus is known to require vast ammounts of memory in some cases. It
is likely you *are* running out of swap.
-Otto
