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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!psgrain!percy!agora!rgrimes From: rgrimes@agora.rain.com (Rodney Grimes) Subject: Re: patch 0.2.3 BUGS ? Message-ID: <C6G1r5.MuK@agora.rain.com> Organization: Open Communications Forum References: <1993Apr29.031107.3815@sparc4.ncu.edu.tw> <C6907n.Ir@unx.sas.com> Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 09:16:16 GMT Lines: 36 sastdr@torpid.unx.sas.com (Thomas David Rivers) writes: >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. And the patch kit master machine (thats me) is a 386/40 + 387/40 with 8MB so it does work. That script was written and debugged and tested on a 386 with 8 MB. And I also did it with the stock 0.1 binaries. More than likely the problem here is too small a swap space. (I run a 32MB swap partition). > The only difference I have from the vanilla patch kit is a different >com driver. The test cases I run before shipping a BETA patch kit is to load up a 0.1 release system, then follow the instructions for installing the patch kit, running afterinstall, building the GENERICISA kernel, running that kernel and then running buildworld.sh. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@agora.rain.com 386BSD patchkit coordinator Wish it paid real money! Accurate Automation Company All opinions belong to me and my company!