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I also started to be afraid. I have only 8Gb in my 64bit laptop and I'm |
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currently replacing the server (not because of the symptoms) to core-i7 |
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with 16Gb of RAM. How long will it be enough if 3.6Gb on a 32bit already |
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too small? |
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-- |
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dr Tóth Attila, Radiológus, 06-20-825-8057 |
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Attila Toth MD, Radiologist, +36-20-825-8057 |
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2012.Szeptember 7.(P) 14:16 időpontban "Tóth Attila" ezt írta: |
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> I have a 32-bit (Athlon MP) machine running Hardened Gentoo. The system |
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> has 4Gb of RAM, but it only sees around 3.6Gb due to hardware reasons. |
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> |
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> Recently I couldn't upgrade either thunderbird or seamonkey, because a the |
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> most important linking dies with this error message: |
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> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.6.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: |
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> failed to set dynamic section sizes: Memory exhausted |
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> |
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> The linker process consumes nearly one third of the system memory. The top |
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> virtual memory consumption is around 35.9% for a moment before |
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> termination, but I couldn't capture it. Here is how it stays for a minute |
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> before the process dies (taken from top): |
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> 10263 root 20 0 1176m 1.1g 2668 R 100 31.9 1:11.82 ld |
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> |
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> In the mean time, top also shows, that we have still a lot of memory to |
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> use: |
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> Mem: 3606828k total, 3164612k used, 442216k free, 110976k buffers |
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> Swap: 4530136k total, 0k used, 4530136k free, 1109312k cached |
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> No swapping. |
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> |
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> I tried it right after a fresh reboot. |
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> |
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> ulimit -a: |
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> core file size (blocks, -c) 0 |
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> data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited |
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> scheduling priority (-e) 0 |
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> file size (blocks, -f) unlimited |
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> pending signals (-i) 28178 |
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> max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64 |
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> max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited |
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> open files (-n) 1024 |
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> pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 |
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> POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 |
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> real-time priority (-r) 0 |
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> stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 |
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> cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited |
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> max user processes (-u) 28178 |
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> virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited |
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> file locks (-x) unlimited |
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> |
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> Omitting "-pipe" from CFLAGS didn't help. What else can I try to compile |
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> these binaries? Are there any PaX or Grsec kernel options with a potential |
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> influence? |
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> Should I accept, that I cannot compile thunderbird or seamonkey on a 32bit |
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> architecture having 4G of RAM these days? |
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> If anybody have an idea, please don't hesitate. |
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> Regards: |
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> Dwokfur |
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> -- |
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> dr Tóth Attila, Radiológus, 06-20-825-8057 |
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> Attila Toth MD, Radiologist, +36-20-825-8057 |
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