[YLUG] VPS running out of memory

[Liam Wilson]

--- vivi <vivi at mage.me.uk> wrote:

> Theres no swap with the vps. Ive been playing with
> ulimit with little success, just seems to ignore the
> limits i set.
> http://forums.vpslink.com/showthread.php?t=246 << It
> seems as though adding swap wont help. I think ill
> try distcc unless anyone can think of a better way
> ^^ Thanks 

Bit convoluted, but couldn't you get a swap file using
usermode linux? You could build a minimal root
filesystem with debootstrap, then mount your host's
/bin /usr and so on within the uml machine. You'd then
have the same environment,and have permission to
create swapfiles within it.

Liam


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