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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!plains.NoDak.edu!ortmann From: ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Ortmann) Subject: Re: Out of memory? Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login) Message-ID: <C4Ep1x.F56@ns1.nodak.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 18:37:08 GMT References: <crt.732897369@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> <1993Mar23.160203.3825@coe.montana.edu> <summer.732933611@mullian.ee.Mu.OZ.AU> Nntp-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network Lines: 32 summer@ee.mu.OZ.AU (Mark Summerfield) writes: )osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes: )>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). )Umm, I'm about to install -- I want 32M swap, and I know this in )advance. Is there some way of telling install this (I can't recall )reading anything about it in the INSTALL.NOTES or the FAQ), or am I )going to have to install, use disklabel and reinstall? If so, what is )involved with this -- how much of the installation procedure do I have )to go through before going back, and how do I reinstall (presumably )just running install again will return the 5MB swap partition)? Ummm.... some bad news guys... I don't understand this behavior, but... I have a Gateway2000 EISA system with 16 megs ram, 32 megs swap, and could not process the documentation for gnu emacs without an "Out of Memory" error. :-( I have also gotten this error at other times. Thinking that X might be hogging memory, I killed it off and ran it as the only serious process.....same error. :-( I can use emacs, X, MANY heavily loaded processes....but can not process the emacs docs. -- Daniel Ortmann NDSU Electrical Engineering ortmann@plains.nodak.edu Fargo, North Dakota