virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory

[Ken Williams]

    Hi FreeBSD folks,

   I'm having trouble compiling the java/jdk15 package.  I've downloaded the 
files from Sun and eyesbeyond, as per usual. When I go to the jdk15 
directory and do 'make' the compilation starts and runs for an hour or two 
and then grinds to a halt with the following error message;
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gmake[3]: Leaving directory
`/usr/ports/java/jdk15/work/control/build/bsd-i586/hotspot-i586/tmp/bsd_i486_compiler2/jvmg'
gmake[3]: Entering directory
`/usr/ports/java/jdk15/work/control/build/bsd-i586/hotspot-i586/tmp/bsd_i486_compiler2/jvmg'
Compiling ../generated/adfiles/ad_i486.cpp
virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory
gmake[3]: *** [ad_i486.o] Error 1
gmake[3]: Leaving directory
`/usr/ports/java/jdk15/work/control/build/bsd-i586/hotspot-i586/tmp/bsd_i486_compiler2/jvmg'
gmake[2]: *** [the_vm] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory
`/usr/ports/java/jdk15/work/control/build/bsd-i586/hotspot-i586/tmp/bsd_i486_compiler2/jvmg'
gmake[1]: *** [jvmg] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory
`/usr/ports/java/jdk15/work/control/build/bsd-i586/hotspot-i586/tmp'
gmake: *** [jvmg] Error 2
*** Error code 2

Stop in /usr/ports/java/jdk15.
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   The PC I'm using has a 2.3GHz Pentium, with 128MB memory and 70GB free 
disk space
running FreeBSD-6.1PRERELEASE. Interestingly, when I run 'make' and do 'top' 
the compilation process steadily grows to 128MB in size and then stays at 
that size until it grinds to a halt.

  I was under the impression that FreeBSD imposed a default maximum process 
size of 512MB, maybe that's changed or I was wrong (anyone ??). After 
Googling, I found that the way to increase the maximum process size was to 
add the following entries to /boot/loader.conf and reboot;

root$ more /boot/loader.conf
kern.maxdsiz="1073741824" # 1GB
kern.dfldsiz="1073741824" # 1GB
kern.maxssiz="134217728" # 128MB

  I did this and tried compiling jdk15 again but it made no difference.

  So I had the idea that another way to increase the amount of virtual 
memory available is to increase the amount of swap memory available (correct 
??) which I did (to 1GB) as described in the Handbook here
(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/adding-swap-space.html).
This I did, and when I do 'top' it shows up as available swap memory but 
when I tried compiling jdk15 again it also made no difference.

  I've also checked my resource limits (ulimit) but they look reasonable to 
me;

root$ ulimit -SHacdflmnpstuv
core file size        (blocks, -c) unlimited
data seg size         (kbytes, -d) 524288
file size             (blocks, -f) unlimited
max locked memory     (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size       (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                    (-n) 1735
pipe size          (512 bytes, -p) 1
stack size            (kbytes, -s) 65536
cpu time             (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes            (-u) 867
virtual memory        (kbytes, -v) unlimited


   For info, I also have java/linux-sun-jdk14 installed with linprocfs 
mounted (to bootstrap the jdk15 installation) but I don't think this is 
related to my problem.

  I'm at a bit of a loss what to do next. Do I need to buy some more memory 
for my PC (just to compile jdk15) or is there anything else I can try or 
change in FreeBSD which may help me ?

         Any help is much appreciated.

    Ken