On Saturday 14 January 2006 14:12, you wrote: > On Saturday 14 January 2006 14:13, knitti wrote: > > On 1/14/06, viq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Any ideas/pointers what to do with this? > > > i386 (in vmware), snapshot from jan 9 > > > > did it build for you in an earlier occasion? > > That's the first time I'm trying, thus the question about success > stories. > > > building java needs a > > metric assload of memory, as it seems. last time I built it > > (-stable, pre x-mas) the whole mem usage exceeded 300 mb (i386) an > > hour after starting the build, before it was at about 40 mb, don't > > know at which point it reaches its max. > > Hmm, I'll watch the memory usage now. The system has 256 ram, 300 > swap.
That should be enough memory for the build. I'm looking into a similar problem in 1.4 right now. The segfault is random and the few times I caught it in gdb, I didn't get a backtrace that led me to the problem. The breakage occured somewhere after the Dec 22 snapshot. > i guess i could try with half a gig of ram, maybe then it'll > finish. > > > it could also be a variation on this: > > http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ > > thank's, i'll look there. > > > --knitti