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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!corax.udac.uu.se!astro.uu.se!goran From: goran@astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Memory problem Date: 16 Oct 1992 12:36:03 GMT Organization: Uppsala University Lines: 27 Sender: goran@solaris.astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback) Distribution: world Message-ID: <1bmcvjINN5m3@corax.udac.uu.se> References: <wmbfmk.719081295@rwb.urc.tue.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: solaris.astro.uu.se Keywords: memory In article <wmbfmk.719081295@rwb.urc.tue.nl>, wmbfmk@rwb.urc.tue.nl (Marc van Kempen) writes: |> Hi, I seem to have a memory related problem with 386bsd. |> |> Whenever I start xlyap a few times (consumes approx. 4 MB each time) and |> then start a make on some big program, my system will eventually hang, |> and even reboot. I have read the thread about make having a memory leak, |> so I guess the system just runs out of memory, which should be correct |> since I had started xlyap enough times to use up to 34 MB or so. What |> bothers me is that the system does not complain about running out of |> memory in a somewhat more communicative manner than it does right now. |> Is there a bug somewhere or am I just stupid and misconfigured the |> system? |> It's a known problem that 386BSD just hangs if you fill the swap. I call it a bug (I doubt you will find anyone saying it's feature 8-) ). -- Goran ------------------------------+--------------------------------- Goran Hammarback | goran@astro.uu.se Astronomiska Observatoriet | Uppsala Universitet | S-751 20 SWEDEN | ------------------------------+---------------------------------