FYI, my swap space appears to be 0 bytes. As I understand it, swap space sort of extends the actual amount of RAM that can be used, and so here I have 0. This implies that my system was attempting to allocate more than 1GB of RAM.

Is there a log file I can check to see how much RAM the system was attempting to allocate at the time that I was running this build?

Here is the /proc/meminfo snapshot.

MemTotal: 1048576 kB
MemFree: 976056 kB
Buffers: 0 kB
Cached: 0 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 0 kB
Inactive: 0 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 1048576 kB
LowFree: 976056 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 0 kB
Mapped: 0 kB
Slab: 0 kB
PageTables: 0 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 0 kB
Committed_AS: 0 kB
VmallocTotal: 0 kB
VmallocUsed: 0 kB
VmallocChunk: 0 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
Hugepagesize: 2048 kB

@mfilpot, yeah, I should have written it down. I believe it was an malloc out of memory exception. It didn't really say much else than that. I'm guessing that I have somewhat less than 20GB of free space; that's how much comes with the plan, and I haven't installed anything except for apache.

@Rubberman, not sure how much swap space is allocated. I'll check tonight.

@marc, is that so? It could see compiles requiring a lot of memory to hold all the definitions and trees.

FYI, the installation was successful - happy!

I was doing the build step for apache http server, and I kept getting this error saying something could not allocate memory. I did some searching, and I didn't exactly find an answer, but it seems that the problem may have been that my server just didn't have enough memory to execute the make in one go. So I kept on trying, and that seems to have worked (still working on the apache installation).

My question is: do you think the lack of memory was really the problem here? I just setup this virtual dedicated linux server with godaddy. It's the smallest version, economy, but it says it has 1GB of RAM, so I'm surprised.

ok, thanks

Hi, I'm relatively new to linux, and one thing I have trouble with is documentation. Are pro linux users expected to be reading source code for the _real_ documentation? I'm already a windows developer, but I'm still learning to develop on linux, and I want to be skilled like a pro.

Here's a specific example. I was just trying to understand how to interpret the list that is printed when I run

yum check-update

Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit

adobe-linux-i386                                         |  951 B     00:00     

adobe-linux-i386/primary                                 |  11 kB     00:00     

fedora/metalink                                          |  21 kB     00:00     

fedora                                                   | 4.2 kB     00:00     

fedora/primary_db                                        |  12 MB     01:23     

fedora/group_gz                                          | 431 kB     00:03     

spotify                                                  | 1.3 kB     00:00     

spotify/primary                                          | 1.5 kB     00:00     

updates/metalink                                         |  17 kB     00:00     

updates                                                  | 4.7 kB     00:00     

updates/primary_db                                       | 2.9 MB     00:19     

updates/group_gz                                         | 431 kB     00:02     

adobe-linux-i386                                                          17/17

spotify                                                                     3/3

Since there are two lists, I'm not sure what each one means. Plus, I want to know what the values in each column mean. I have guesses about all of this, but I want to be certain - you know?

I had music playing and the screen locked, then someone came into my office to talk to me, and I wanted to just mute the box by pressing the mute key. Since the screen was locked (password required), I could not mute.