Unable to install MLton

[Henry Cejtin]

Your  machine  has  64  meg  of memory (or at least that is what Linux sees),
which should be fine.  You don't have any swap space at all, so  if  you  run
lots  of  things  that could cause problems.  If you re-install Slackware you
should probably add a swap partition, but you can also just add a  swap  file
if  you  wish.   If  you  don't  know how to do that, I can send you detailed
instructions.

Looking at the strace output, this is  the  cause  for  the  problem.   MLton
started  out  and  allocated 27 meg for one half-space of its world.  Then it
allocated another 27 meg for the second half-space of  its  world.   After  a
while  it  did a garbage collect, then realized that it should get a bit more
memory, so it de-allocated one of the 27 meg chunks and tried to  allocate  a
second  28  meg  chunk.   This second allocation failed, even though it would
have been a total of about 56 meg.

Mind you, a bit more memory certainly wouldn't hurt.