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From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: "Phil Oester" <kernel@theoesters.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 1gb RAM + 1gb SWAP + make -j bzImage = OOM
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 22:02:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020104220240.233ae66a.skraw@ithnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004b01c1955e$ecbc9190$6400a8c0@philxp>
In-Reply-To: <004b01c1955e$ecbc9190$6400a8c0@philxp>

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:32:27 -0800
"Phil Oester" <kernel@theoesters.com> wrote:

> On 2.4.17, I can't make -j bzImage without OOM kicking in.  Relatively
> light .config here - bzImage compiles to less than 1mb.
> 
> Seems with 1 gb of RAM and swap, the box should be able to handle this
> (box is dual P3 600 btw).  
> 
> Is this unreasonable?  How much RAM should it take to accomplish this???

You should give a bit more info on that, especially vmstat and the like.
I cannot reproduce this. Neither on 1GB/256MB nor on 2GB/256MB RAM/SWAP.
(P3-1GHz, dual SMP, 2.4.17)

Regards,
Stephan


  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-04 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-04 20:32 1gb RAM + 1gb SWAP + make -j bzImage = OOM Phil Oester
2002-01-04 21:02 ` Stephan von Krawczynski [this message]
2002-01-05  0:42   ` Nicholas Knight
2002-01-05  1:24     ` Phil Oester
2002-01-05 15:17       ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-07  6:22         ` Phil Oester
2002-01-07 14:24           ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-08  5:11             ` Phil Oester
2002-01-05 21:41       ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-01-05 12:30     ` Luigi Genoni
2002-01-05 15:19     ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-05 17:57       ` Nicholas Knight
2002-01-06 14:40         ` Stephan von Krawczynski

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