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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE!acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de!kuku From: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: compiling kernel hangs machine Message-ID: <1992Jul27.172938.8957@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Date: 27 Jul 92 17:29:38 GMT References: <1992Jul26.205819.11128@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <cproto.712233991@marsh> Sender: news@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Newsfiles Owner) Reply-To: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de Organization: I.Physikalisches Institut RWTH-Aachen Lines: 28 Nntp-Posting-Host: acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de >>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)? >I had similar problems. Sometimes the make hangs and the only remedy is >a reboot. I managed to build a kernel with ddb. Using CTRL+ALT+ESC I Good to hear I'm not alone. BTW, I rebooted also and next time I started make in /sys/compiles/GENERICISA I removed some processes (routed, mountd, lpd and what else there was not so important) and I got through. The kernel I rebuilt contained the nfs_patch posted recently. Strange though it was exactly the same in size (bytes) as the kernel in /. Didn't do a sum - maybe I trashed sum during installation of etc01. --Chris ----------------------------------------------------------------- kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de *** Error code 1 Stop.