Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!agate!stanford.edu!rutgers!psinntp!psinntp!dg-rtp!ponds!rivers
From: rivers@ponds.uucp (Thomas David Rivers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: compiling kernel hangs machine
Message-ID: <1992Jul27.114544.26484@ponds.uucp>
Date: 27 Jul 92 11:45:44 GMT
References: <1992Jul26.205819.11128@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Lines: 24
> Could it be that the swap default space (5MB) is too small for compiling
> a kernel with a 4 MB machine. I tried a first kernel build this
> afternoon on a 386SX 4MB and when I came back after several hours the machine seemed to be dead - login from outside was not possible (telnet hung also).
>
> This happened during the compilation of tty.c .
>
> Is it possible to increase the swap space simply by swapping to a file (swapon)?
>
> --Chris
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
Again, to add data to this problem, my swap partition is 18MB; this
appears to offer no remedy to the problem.
However, Andrew Torda (torda@igc.ethz.ch) reports that he got
around this problem by slowing his 33Mhz machine down to 8Mhz.
- Dave Rivers -
(rivers@ponds.uucp)