Compiling Phalcon - Virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory

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Nikolaos Dimopoulos picture Nikolaos Dimopoulos · Apr 2, 2014 · Viewed 24.6k times · Source

When I try to compile Phalcon, I get an error:

virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory

I am running the following commands

git clone --depth=1 git://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon.git 
cd cphalcon/build 
sudo ./install

I have a VPS with 1GB RAM

Answer

Hunger picture Hunger · May 27, 2014

Add more swapfile may help. I met this problem when tried to compile YouCompleteMe for vim, solved it by adding swapfile.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-14-04

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