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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!hippo!abs From: abs@itu.sun.ac.za (Andre Skarzynski) Subject: Re: patch 0.2.3 BUGS ? Message-ID: <1993Apr30.060259.13981@hippo.ru.ac.za> Sender: news@hippo.ru.ac.za (Usenet News Admin) Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] References: <C6907n.Ir@unx.sas.com> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 06:02:59 GMT Lines: 30 Thomas David Rivers (sastdr@torpid.unx.sas.com) wrote: : In article <1993Apr29.031107.3815@sparc4.ncu.edu.tw> toor@alice.net.ncu.edu.tw (Bourne-again Superuser) writes: : > The Patchkit 0.2.3 exist 2 serious bugs : : > : > 1. It eat too much memory, I have tried to do the "buildworld.sh" in many : > machines, but if the RAM is less than 16MB, the process will hang : > forever, even block the system. I have tried it on 3 386 machine (-25, : > -33) with 4 or 8 MB ram, no one survived. But if I add the RAM to : > 16MB, all successful!!! : > : > because the the process hang in making the lib or nroff the man page. : > I guess the compiler or nroff catch too much memory : I can successfully do it with a 12-meg machine; it takes overnight; but : when I wake up - it's all there and the machine is still happily running. : This is with a 386-33mhz DX and an Cyrix 387. : The only difference I have from the vanilla patch kit is a different : com driver. I must just add that this is strange. I have only a 8meg machine, and I have built the whole bang shoot in one go with out any problems. I am running patch 0.2.3. I suppose it has alot to do with the fact that I have just over 12Meg of swap space, maybe. Who knows? maybe I am lucky ;-). -- Andre B. Skarzynski | abs@cs.sun.ac.za | WORN TYRES CAN KILL!