Bookdown error: ! I can't write on file `skills.pdf'.

I encountered this problem when using Bookdown.

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! I can't write on file `bioinfBookXIE186.pdf'. (Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit; default file extension is `.pdf') Please type another file name for output ! Emergency stop. \AtBegShi@Output ...ipout \box \AtBeginShipoutBox                                                    \fi \fi  l.199 \maketitle ! Emergency stop. \AtBegShi@Output ...ipout \box \AtBeginShipoutBox                                                    \fi \fi  l.199 \maketitle Error: Failed to compile bioinfBookXIE186.tex. See bioinfBookXIE186.log

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! I can't write on file `skills.pdf'. In this case, the error is caused by not having enough memory. The clone(...) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory) error from strace prompted me to check my ram usage. Running xelatex with 150M of free ram provokes the write/clone() error. Running with at least 500M of free ram consistently avoids the error. I haven't experimented enough to know exactly how much free ram is enough, but I suppose that also depends on the complexity of the tex file. To compensate, I created a swap file (fwiw, I usually don't have one). dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/512mb.swap bs=1M count=512 mkswap /var/512mb.swap swapon /var/512mb.swap

It works for me.

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