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!