4.0G: Insufficient virtual memory to continue compilation?

From: Sylvain Robitaille <syl_at_alcor.concordia.ca>
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 14:24:49 -0400 (EDT)

[PLEASE NOTE: This message sent to both the Tru64-Unix managers mailing
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those who will see it twice...]

Wow! I've *never* seen this before...

The system is a DS10, with 512MB of physical memory, and > 1GB swap (2
swap partitions: 521 MB + 512 MB). I'm trying to compile OpenSSL-0.9.6e
on it and I'm getting this error when it tries to compile
crypto/sha/sha_dgst.c:

  Fatal: Insufficient virtual memory to continue compilation.

I don't know what to make of it. I've tried unlimitting all my process
resources, I've checked with both vmstat and monitor and neither are
showing anything that I would consider unusual (sample vmstat output
appended below my signature).

Have any others seen this happen?
Can somebody help me figure out where I should look for at least more
information about this, and preferably some sort of resolution?

(I currently have OpenSSL-0.9.3 on this system, and I've successfully
 compiled OpenSSL-0.9.6e on other Tru64-Unix-4.0[efg] systems without
 problems...)

Thanks in advance...

-- 
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Sylvain Robitaille                              syl_at_alcor.concordia.ca
Systems analyst                                   Concordia University
Instructional & Information Technology        Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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(compilation of the file was started after the third line from vmstat
below.  It terminates when runnable processes goes back to 2)
Sorry about the long lines...
: athena[root] /local/pkg/openssl/openssl-0.9.6e; vmstat 1
Virtual Memory Statistics: (pagesize = 8192)
procs    memory         pages                          intr        cpu
r   w  u  act  free wire fault cow zero react pin pout  in  sy  cs  us  sy  id
2 120 28   35K  16K  11K 1235M 104M 415M   3M 434M 559K  54  1K 239   6   4  90
2 120 28   35K  16K  11K  166    5  145    0   15    0  21 704 123   0   2  98
2 120 28   35K  16K  11K  118    0  118    0    0    0  39 218 157   2   2  96
3 121 28   35K  15K  11K  121    0  118    0    2    0  39 617 141  28   5  67
3 121 28   36K  15K  11K  818   41  730    0   49    0  14  97  94  98   2   0
3 121 28   41K  10K  11K  808    4  803    0    5    0  16 703 581  76  24   0
3 121 28   46K 5164  11K 6031    0 6030    0    0    0  25 853 812  62  38   0
3 121 28   51K  514  11K 5323    0 5323    0    0    0  12 650 639  58  42   0
3 119 28   35K  16K  11K 4000    0 3977    0    0    0  14 209 173   6   9  85
2 120 28   35K  16K  11K  128    0  118    0    0    0  13  80  58   1   2  97
2 120 28   35K  16K  11K  119    0  118    0    0    0  11 661  76   0   2  98

Received on Thu Aug 01 2002 - 18:25:12 NZST