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From: felawka@sitka.triumf.ca (Larry Felawka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: patch 0.2.3 BUGS ?
Date: 3 May 1993 15:04:59 GMT
Organization: TRIUMF, Vancouver BC
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In article <C6G4H3.21o@zap.uniforum.qc.ca> fortin@zap.uniforum.qc.ca (Denis Fortin) 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 recently installed Patchkit 0.2.3 and ran buildworld.sh with only one
problem - "virtual memory exhausted".  After setting "limit datasize 32767"
and "limit stacksize 32767" (I run tcsh) I had no further problems.  I am
running a 486DX/33 with 16MB and default swap partition.  As per instructions
in the patchkit, I shut down X before doing this and ran from the console.


				- Larry Felawka