Error (293007): Current module quartus_map ended unexpectedly

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I am trying to compile the hello_world opencl example. I got the emulator version working fine. Am now trying to build the hardware version.  

Compile line is    aoc device/hello_world.cl -o bin/hello_world.aocx --board s5_ref  After 20 minutes it fails with following message   Error: Compiler Error, not able to generate hardware  The following is the tail end of the quartus_sh_compile.log file  Info (12128): Elaborating entity "system_mm_interconnect_2" for hierarchy "system:system_inst|system_mm_int Error (293007): Current module quartus_map ended unexpectedly Error: Flow compile (for project /home/mps/altera_projects/mhello/mhello/top) was not successful Error: ERROR: Error(s) found while running an executable. See report file(s) for error message(s). Message  No other log or report files seem to have anything worth mentioning.  Thanks for any help. PS using linux redhat, version 14.1 of quartus.

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How much memory do you have? I sometimes see this when quartus runs out of memory.

[Altera_Forum]

Excellent! I see from my system logs that quartus_map does in fact get killed because it runs out of memory. 

 I only have 4GB and no swap, am trying again with swap=16GB.