i am running ubuntu 11.10 64 bit. I was able to eventually build with --makeargs="-j1". I will try increase the swap space and see if it helps. Regards Sachin
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:55 AM, John Yani <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-12-26 at 21:45 -0800, sachin nikam wrote: >> I synced up the latest webkit code base and am trying to build webkit >> gtk on ubuntu 11.10 with 4gb of RAM and 4 CPUs >> >> I tried with --makeargs="-j2" but still got "ld process terminated >> signal[9]" error ?which indicates that it ran out of memory. >> I suspect i will still the get the same error with --makeargs="-j1". >> Is there any other flag where we can restrict the memory usage? >> Regards >> Sachin > > I had the same problem after I've upgraded my PC to 12 GB of RAM. > Before upgrade I was able to build 32 bit webkit on my 4 GB computer > with Ubuntu 11.10 32-bit with PAE and 8 GB of swap. > So what I recommend is to remove 1 GB of memory (or load something > heavy to take that 1GB of RAM) and add more swap. > > Physical address extension doesn't allow any process to take more than > [specific amount] of physical RAM, so swap must be used. In your case > it seems like swap is never used, so the system fails to address > additional physical memory you have. > > But I highly recommend upgrading your computer to minimum of 8 GB of > RAM and install 64 bit Ubuntu. If you really need 32-bit build, > cross-compiling might be an option. > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
