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Thank you very much Martin, luckily I'm running crosstool under a VMWare, so I was able to set more RAM for the host machine and all worked good! Martin Guy wrote: > > 2007/11/15, Omone <alessandro.castrucci@iit.cnr.it>: >> Crosstool correctly downloads all prerequisites but ends unexpectedly >> with >> the message >> "ld terminated with sigal 9 [sigkill]" >> Any ideas? > > That's what normally happens when your machine runs out of virtual > memory: the kernel kills whatever process requested "more memory" than > it has. Signal 9 is also characteristic of this. > > You can verify this by running "vmstat 5" on a separate console: if > the "free" and "cache" columns go down to 4 digits just before it > happens, this is your problem. > If you have swap enabled on your build host, you may also see the > "swapped" column rise to a maximum, and the "si so" columns go > frantic; there will also be a lot of disk-read activity as the kernel > in it last efforts to keep the show going deallocates pages of program > text only to find that it needs to fetch them back in again from disk. > > The last lines of the output of "dmesg", if you run it just after the > crash, should also be illuminating. > > Other than adding more RAM, you could try configuring some (or some > more) swap space on your build host - get back in touch if you need > pointers on how to do this. > > M > > -- > For unsubscribe information see http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faq > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/crosstool-0.43-ends-with-a-sigkill--tf4811998.html#a13795483 Sent from the Sourceware - crossgcc list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe information see http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faq
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