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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Re: Compiling 2.1.0
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:

>shanee@rabbit.augusta.de (Andreas Kohout) writes:

>> : Perhaps you ran out of swap, so the swap_pager has killed your shell?
>> 
>> I have 64MByte of SWAP, maybe too less?

>Should suffice.  To be sure, watch the syslog (in /var/log/messages)
>for ``swap_pager: out of swap'' messages.

I seem to remember the original poster saying he was doing this in
single user? If so, remember -- your swap space is not mounted by
default. If you're doing anything intense in single user mode you
should do a 'swapon -a'.

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