Re: crosstool 0.43 ends with a sigkill?

[Omone <alessandro dot castrucci at iit dot cnr dot it>]

Thank you very much Martin,
luckily I'm running crosstool under a VMWare, so I was able to set more RAM
for the host machine and all worked good!


Martin Guy wrote:
> 
> 2007/11/15, Omone <alessandro.castrucci@iit.cnr.it>:
>> Crosstool correctly downloads all prerequisites but ends unexpectedly
>> with
>> the message
>> "ld terminated with sigal 9 [sigkill]"
>> Any ideas?
> 
> That's what normally happens when your machine runs out of virtual
> memory: the kernel kills whatever process requested "more memory" than
> it has. Signal 9 is also characteristic of this.
> 
> You can verify this by running "vmstat 5" on a separate console: if
> the "free" and "cache" columns go down to 4 digits just before it
> happens, this is your problem.
> If you have swap enabled on your build host, you may also see the
> "swapped" column rise to a maximum, and the "si so" columns go
> frantic; there will also be a lot of disk-read activity as the kernel
> in it last efforts to keep the show going deallocates pages of program
> text only to find that it needs to fetch them back in again from disk.
> 
> The last lines of the output of "dmesg", if you run it just after the
> crash, should also be illuminating.
> 
> Other than adding more RAM, you could try configuring some (or some
> more) swap space on your build host - get back in touch if you need
> pointers on how to do this.
> 
>     M
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