Ran out of RAM or address space? I&#x27;ve run out of RAM trying to ridiculous stuff like native builds on tiny embedded systems (due to whack code bases that wouldn&#x27;t cross compile). Though, in the end I overcame this with even more perverse solutions like adding swap space via USB1 flash.<p>That aside, that is the third time in a couple of months that I have heard people mention situations where they ran out of RAM without explaining why swap could not at least work as a stop gap measure.