From: butler@cs.tulane.edu (Larry Butler) Subject: Re: Linux lockup on "out of memory" Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 19:47:15 GMT
In article <1993Feb24.200335.739@rz.uni-jena.de> pih@rz.uni-jena.de (Erik Heinz) writes:
> My trials to compile larger X applications, like xv2.21, ended in a lockup
> of Linux. The last I saw was "out of memory", after this the system would
>...
> Installing a 8MB swap file did not help, it did only lengthen the time
> before lockup. Saving memory by desactivating -O did not help, either.
> - Could I have done something wrong, or is it a bug?
I don't thing this is a bug. I compiled xv2.21 and at times there was more
than 20Mb of real and virtual memory being used.
Larry