> I built a kernel from a clean 2.0.31-pre-patch-6 and Gadi's
> patch to memory management and did a 'make -j zImage'. It
> died with 'virtual memory exhusted' compiling the fs directory.
>
> There were no kernel messages in dmesg or syslog.
>
> 16mb ram + 32 mb swap.
>
> joel
>
In fact, patch has nothing to do with "memory exhaustion".
To compile kernel with "make -j" you need almost 100MB of virtual
memory space, so your 48 just wasn't enough.
You can try with "make -j 10" with your memory configuration.
Or you can increase your swap space.
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