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Check if you have parallel compilation enabled, e.g. in the environment variable $ROS_PARALLEL_JOBS (also there will be multiple compiler processes in "top" when you run rosmake).

4GB might not be enough if you do compile in parallel, as some very memory hungry template libraries are used.

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