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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sgigate!olivea!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!alijku11!k390670 From: K390670@ALIJKU11.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Compiling kernel locks machine (was: takes a long time) Message-ID: <92295.112907K390670@ALIJKU11.BITNET> Date: 21 Oct 92 11:09:13 GMT Organization: Johannes Kepler University Linz - Computing Center Lines: 43 Similar to some other people who have posted about this problem, the following happens on my machine (486-50 with 212 MB Conner, 16MB RAM): When I install the sources, change into /usr/sys and do a "make all", the machine happily compiles up to a certain point. Then hard disk activity stops, but the machine isn't completely frozen either: typing characters on the keyboard produces console echo. Sometimes <CTRL-C> will break into the shell prompt under such circumstances, and 1 (in words: one) more program (like pwd, ls) can be run. After that, just console echo works (and *nothing* else). Sometimes <CTRL-C> doesn't work as soon as the hard disk activity is stopped while the machine is running gcc. Sometimes gcc stops with the message: Signal 6 received. Aborting. (not literally, but it is signal 6). (Of course, I don't kill it, it just happens.) The 3 forms of the problem occur at random times during make all, but can be reproduced for /usr/src/lib/libg++/libg++/Integer.cc (which means that I don't ever get past Integer.cc.) Integer.cc is a rather long program (47K source), but not abnormally so. As I just did "install" on the entire disk, I *don't* know if I have any swapspace configured, but 16MB RAM should really suffice. So far, I don't have any patches installed (this recompile was supposed to be a test run...) Any suggestions are highly welcome. I start thinking of dumping 386BSD and trying LINUX instead. I mean, I can fix bugs myself, but if a kernel recompile fails, I get into some sort of "hen and egg" problem... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gregor Glawitsch I Everybody should believe in Institute of Microcomputer Applications I something - I believe I should Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz, Austria I have another beer... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------