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From: big@von-neumann (Patrick Drolet)
Subject: SO DO I: PROBLEM WITH HANGING KERNEL AFTER HEAVY
Message-ID: <1993May31.180743.18903@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
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Date: Mon, 31 May 1993 18:07:43 GMT
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I've also experienced problems with netBSD 0.8 while rebuilding an xfree
X386 kernel.  I've got 32 megs of swap & 8 megs of ram.

Before it hangs, my swapinfo tells me that all (32 megs) the swap area is
being used, but I have to run swapinfo (with a script looping on swapinfo
every 5 seconds) to know the problem.  The OS doesn't tell me that swap area
is fully used.

Maybe I'll try to build the X386 kernel using gcc 1.x instead of 2.x



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