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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Config exits on signal 11 Date: 19 May 1996 23:37:26 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4nobbm$35i@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4no1qr$p4r@tofu.alt.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E eyager@novagate.com wrote: > I have a Pentium class system with 8 megs or RAM and am running > FreeBSD 2.1.0. Currently I am using the generic kernal that came with > the distribution. When I try to run config to create a new kernal, it > always quits on signal 11 (memory segmentation fault). It doesn't > matter what kernal I try to compile (LINT or GENERIC). I also tried > doing this under the single-user mode and it still doesn't work. You are tight on RAM, and have too few swap space configured. In single-user mode, you have to turn on swapping at all (swapon -a), it's normally only done when the kernel boots to multi-user. Should all else fail, you can create a swap file. This is slow, but might help you to get up & running at all. The HOWTO is described in the handbook (at least in recent versions, have a look at the Web page version). Don't forget to drastically strip down your kernel from the GENERIC file. If you are tight on RAM, don't enable things you won't use -- the kernel is _not_ demand-paged, it occupies memory once and forever. Do also reduce the `maxusers', it's responsible for the size of several kernel buffers. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)