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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tyan S1668 problems Date: 23 Feb 1997 23:18:01 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5eqj79$cch@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5ea45l$id@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> 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 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35992 Soren Ragsdale <soren@primenet.com> wrote: > I've got a system with a Tyan Titan Pro s1668 motherboard, Intel PPro-200, > Adaptec 2940UW scsi controller, and 32MB RAM. I'm running into problems > where I cannot install any standard distributions of software. The > installer for Perl 5.003 (both the release and the new _26 release) has > trouble when it begins to run its 'makedepend' in the Configure script - > new makedepends keep spawning off until the swap is exhausted. Hmm. As you've already mentioned, it sounds like a hardware problem. Have you tried relaxing the memory timing and such? Just being paranoid: you've got enough of swap space, do you? Can you post the output of ps -alx or top when it runs out of swap? -- 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. ;-)