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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!osyjm From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Subject: Re: Out of memory? Message-ID: <1993Mar23.160203.3825@coe.montana.edu> Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: CS References: <crt.732897369@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 16:02:03 GMT Lines: 32 In article <crt.732897369@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu (Rob Shady) writes: > >Okay, I don't understand this, I thought that the install program auto-magically >installed a swap partition on your hard drive during installation, and I am now >coming to the conclusion that it hadn't. After installing a fresh 386bsd 0.1 >system, I downloaded the NEw and IMPROVED patch kit, installed ALL patches, >rebuilt the kernel, rebooted, then ran the build world script. It ran >most of the night, then crashed when it tried compiling GCC. From past >experience working with 386bsd, I have noticed it crash when it runs out >of memory... I have 8 Megs of RAM in my machine, and a 200 MB Maxtor HD. >After checking /etc/fstab I am beginning to think that this MAY be the >problem since it does not list a swap partition. What can I do short >of reinstalling the whole package?? Is there a swap partition somewhere >that it can't find? Where is the source to the install program??? 1) It does install a swap partition, the problem is it's this dinky little microscopic worthless swap partition instead of a useful swap partition. (It's only 5 MB's). 2) The swap device configured in the kernel doesn't need to be in the fstab file as far as I am aware. 3) Add a second disk with another swap partition, or figure out a way to make your larger, but with only 1 disk, you'll probably have to dump most of the data off, re-disklabel, then put itback. 4) Install program source is unavailable apparently, for reasons known only to the author... At least I don't know where it is... -- Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager (406) 994-4780 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 osyjm@cs.montana.edu