Re: Easy Guide / new tarball

[John Tobey <spam@john-edwin-tobey.org>]

> The Hurd will eventually crash on large compiles.  How large the
> compile has to be to make this happen depends on factors such as the
> amount of memory and swap space you have.  I have been able to compile
> Perl without problems on my Hurd (which is based on a snapshot from
> july or so with some bug fixes) in 32 MB RAM and 128 MB swap.

Hmm, I probably need more. (24+100)  Did your build include -g and
-DDEBUGGING ?  How does one discover system statistics such as how
much memory is in use?

>    btw, I saw a failed assertion in libdiskfs about an unexpected fault,
> 
> Can you provide the location of the failed assertion?

In disk-pager.c line 93.

Thanks for your help!