Sai Charan

Been trying to build substantial amout of code on linux vmware image. Three times the build has failed with “ld terminated with signal 9”. A simple google revlealed that I might have run out of swap space!

So I run sudo swaon -s and get nothing at all!

Then a google for “turning on swap space” got me to do the following:

# sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/moreswap bs=1M count=512: that creates a 512 MB file named moreswap filled with zeros.

# sudo mkswap /moreswap
# sudo swapon /moreswap

Appended the following line to /etc/fstab to make this change permanent.

/moreswap none swap sw 0 0

Worked like a charm!

Ref: http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/113956