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From: rick@postmaster@hq.af.mil
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: DITTO: Compiling kernel from scratch takesa long time
Message-ID: <11864@hq.hq.af.mil>
Date: 22 Oct 92 20:02:17 GMT
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I have the same configuration as David

Packard Bell 386sx/16
4 megs RAM
130 meg IDE (ST-1144A), approximately 80 megs for 386bsd, rest is DOS
5 megs of Swap space

>Everything was seemingly going smoothly until I noticed that the make was
>stuck trying to compile nfs/nfs_serv.c, and it was taking about 1 1/2 HOURS
>to compile this particular file. 

I noticed this happening every once in a while. I'm guessing that at times
we are running out of swap or perhaps a memory leak of some sort. Anyone
know whats up????


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Rick Weldon     I-NET Inc. (Pentagon, 7TH Com Group)
E-mail: rick@hq.af.mil
Phone:  703-695-5060