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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!rwb.urc.tue.nl!wmbfmk From: wmbfmk@rwb.urc.tue.nl (Marc van Kempen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Memory problem Keywords: memory Message-ID: <wmbfmk.719081295@rwb.urc.tue.nl> Date: 14 Oct 92 16:48:15 GMT Sender: root@tuegate.tue.nl Reply-To: wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl Lines: 26 Hi, I seem to have a memory related problem with 386bsd. Whenever I start xlyap a few times (consumes approx. 4 MB each time) and then start a make on some big program, my system will eventually hang, and even reboot. I have read the thread about make having a memory leak, so I guess the system just runs out of memory, which should be correct since I had started xlyap enough times to use up to 34 MB or so. What bothers me is that the system does not complain about running out of memory in a somewhat more communicative manner than it does right now. Is there a bug somewhere or am I just stupid and misconfigured the system? Here's my system: 486-33 16 MB Ram, 20 MB swap. Adaptec 1542b SCSI with Quantum LPS 240 Tseng ET-4000 with hicolor ram dac. Note: I did apply Terry's patchkit to the kernel and rebuilt it. Can someone shed a light on this one?