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From: fortin@zap.uniforum.qc.ca (Denis Fortin)
Subject: Re: patch 0.2.3 BUGS ?
Organization: zap, Montreal, QC, Canada
References: <1993Apr29.031107.3815@sparc4.ncu.edu.tw>
Message-ID: <C6G4H3.21o@zap.uniforum.qc.ca>
Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 10:14:48 GMT
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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.
Hmmm, that's interesting, I had a similar problem. (Actually, I had the
problem when I initially installed 0.1 and tried to upgradeit with
patchkit 0.2.2... I then realized that doing this is 4 MB of RAM was
hopeless because it hung whenever trying to groff a file bigger than
about 8KB, so I bought an extra 4MB and was able to complete the work.)
Going from pk 0.2.2 to pk 0.2.3, I again encountered the hangups while
groffing, *but* my machine (which now contains 8MB) was also running
C-news at the time, so maybe it got hung only when cron started up some
demon (like expire or something), I haven't verified this.
A possible explanation is the fact that I haven't increased swap space
above 5MB! (I should read the FAQ, I guess)
I find it a bit incredible that I can compile huge programs, but can't
even nroff 16KB documents! There must be more to this nroff thing that
I know (1/2 :-)
Denis.
PS. I ended up being able to apply pk 0.2.3 in about three days with a
number of reboots.