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From: Paul Colquhoun <paulcol@andor.dropbear.id.au>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] xulrunner java problem.
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:48:01 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810201948.01475.paulcol@andor.dropbear.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810191824.05279.paulcol@andor.dropbear.id.au>

On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Paul Colquhoun wrote:
> Has anybody else had problems compiling xulrunner-1.9.0.3 ?
> 
> It keeps failing on my system with a Java error.  I can't find any 
> mention of this on bugzilla, or by doing a Google search.
> 
> Is there some way to increase the amount of memory assigned to the
> Java VM on a global basis, without needing to fiddle with the ebuild?
> 
> I haven't created a bug report for this yet. I want to make sure it's 
> not something stuffed up on my system first.
> 
> My system has 2Gb of RAM, and is (of course) running 64 bit on AMD 
> processors.


Well, it turns out it *was* my system. Seems like 2Gb of RAM + 2Gb of 
swap is just not enough.

I ran the compile again, and this time got a slightly different error, 
about being unable to allocate swap.

After adding another 4Gb of swap, the compile completed successfully.


-- 
Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.    http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol
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      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-20  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-19  7:24 [gentoo-amd64] xulrunner java problem Paul Colquhoun
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