Archive for September, 2007

Building pdftk on VPS cannot allocate memory

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

I found this solution at http://www.schmalenegger.com/virtual-server-compiling-error-cannot-allocate-memory/ Sometimes when you compile certain things on a virtual server from source, you may receive the following error message: “virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory” error. The following is a quick tip that at least worked for me. List the amount of virtual memory allowed: [root@vps /]# ulimit -a […]