From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 28 May 2001 22:55:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 28 May 2001 22:55:47 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-meridian.redhat.com ([199.183.24.200]:8835 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 28 May 2001 22:55:34 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 22:55:33 -0400 From: Pete Zaitcev Message-Id: <200105290255.f4T2tXl24191@devserv.devel.redhat.com> To: jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Plain 2.4.5 VM... In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Ouch! When compiling MySql, building sql_yacc.cc results in a ~300M > cc1plus process size. Unfortunately this leads the machine with 380M of > RAM deeply into swap: > > Mem: 381608K av, 248504K used, 133104K free, 0K shrd, 192K buff > Swap: 255608K av, 255608K used, 0K free 215744K cached > > Vanilla 2.4.5 VM. I noticed that too and there is no way around it. If we assume a 2.5xRAM target, you must add about 704MB. In my case I had no spare partition so I added a swapfile, as undoubtedly many 2.4 sufferers did. -- Pete