Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA03334; Wed, 20 Dec 95 07:40:13 EST Received: from colossus.cse.psu.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA03925; Wed, 20 Dec 95 07:40:13 EST Received: by colossus.cse.psu.edu id <78592>; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 07:29:25 -0500 Received: from symbionics.co.uk ([158.43.6.17]) by colossus.cse.psu.edu with SMTP id <78591>; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 07:29:09 -0500 Received: from sympc143.symbionics.co.uk by symbionics.co.uk (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25988; Wed, 20 Dec 95 12:28:38 GMT Message-Id: <9512201228.AA25988@symbionics.co.uk> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Nigel Roles" Organization: Symbionics Communications To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 07:28:32 -0500 Subject: Re: Can't mk 9pc Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Sender: owner-9fans@cse.psu.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu > I've been trying to apply the latest updates (816407398) to > /sys/src/9/pc and I've run into a problem. > The extraction and creation of the updated files goes smoothly. > When I use "mk" on the patched source, the compilation goes off > without a hitch. During linking, however, Plan 9 gives up the ghost > and gives me the message "Out of memory". My Pentium PC has 16 MB of > RAM. Shouldn't that be enough to link 9pc? > Any ideas? > 16Mb is not enough on it's own, since 8l can take 14Mb (well it is optimised for a well endowed shared compute server). You would need 24Mb to link without swapping. The "Out of memory" message is the result of not having a swap partition selected, so check that out.