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From: mfoley@csi.compuserve.com (M Foley)
Subject: Re: Hangs: 386BSD 0.1+pk0.2.4
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Organization: CompuServe Incorporated
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 20:21:45 GMT
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In article <2602e4$2g0@eddie.mit.edu> Shawn F. Mckay write:

>Howdy. I have 386Bsd v0.1 w/pk 0.2.4 installed. And when I went to
>do the buildworld.sh, it worked up until the C library stuff and then
>it "hung"... When I did a ^Z it gave me a shell then when I typed "w"
>it hung the whole system.
... etc ...

You'll probably get lots of postings on this. It sounds like the same problem
I had two weeks ago. If you are using the default Tiny BSD swap space
(5MB) you will have to increase it. This solved my problem. The word of
mouth rule-of-thumb is 2 times physical memory. I have 8MB, but I made a
swap of 12MB (since it's usually just me on the system). My buildworld.sh
and make depend, ... etc. all worked fine after that. The only problem --
you'll have to save everthing, re-disklabel, newfs, and restore everthing!!