SBCL killed by the OOM killer on Linux while trying to compile cl-yaclyaml

[chaitanyagupta]

I am trying to load cl-yaclyaml from quicklisp on a small (1 GB RAM) Linux instance. However it keeps getting killed by the OOM killer at around the point indicated below.

; compiling (DEFINE-YY-RULE COMPACT-BLOCK-NODE ...).
; compiling (DEFINE-YY-RULE NS-L-COMPACT-SEQUENCE ...).
; compiling (DEFINE-YY-RULE L+BLOCK-MAPPING ...)
; compiling (DEFINE-YY-RULE NS-L-BLOCK-MAP-ENTRY ...).
; compiling (DEFINE-YY-RULE C-L-BLOCK-MAP-EXPLICIT-ENTRY ...).Killed