No Swap space when recompiling kernel

[bnorton916]

New to recompiling FreeBSD kernels so I was just doing a test run. Followed instructions in the freebsd FreeBSD Handbook. Everything was going fine until I received a

root@FreeBSD64:/usr/src # Mar 29 11:50:40 kernel: pid 69043(cc1), uid0, was killed: out of swap space

This is running in VirtualBox. The install was just a base FreeBSD 9.1 install. Ideas?

Bill

 

[chatwizrd]

How much RAM did you assign the VM and how big was your swap partition?

 

[bnorton916]

I think I gave it 256MB, no clue what the swap partition was, just went with defaults.

Bill

 

[kpa]

That's too little to compile world and kernel. Up it to 512MB.

 

[bnorton916]

Ok, will do.

Thanks.

Bill

 

[bnorton916]

That seemed to fix things. Thanks for the help.

Bill