On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:24:35AM -0500, Eric Reischer wrote: > Appears to be a memory/swap related problem. Open up another tty and run > 'top' while the make is going on, and watch your total free memory and your > total free swap......they might get too small for cc to run > successfully. (VM is the virtual memory driver) Tried that; I did some testing in real-time with the folks in #debian-devel. It appears to be a problem with the kernel VM handler (perhaps ppc specific) in 2.2.18pre21. Here are the machine's stats: processor : 0 cpu : 601 clock : 90MHz revision : 0.2 bogomips : 89.99 zero pages : total 0 (0Kb) current: 0 (0Kb) hits: 0/655 (0%) machine : Power Macintosh motherboard : AAPL,7300 MacRISC memory : 56MB pmac-generation : OldWorld 56MB ain't a lot but it should be plenty for almost any compile. -- G. Branden Robinson | Q: How does a Unix guru have sex? Debian GNU/Linux | A: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck; branden@deadbeast.net | more;yes;fsck;fsck;fsck;umount;sleep http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ |
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