From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from max.fys.ruu.nl (max.fys.ruu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA07849 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 17:34:38 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 10:37:02 +0100 (MET) From: Rik van Riel Reply-To: H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl Subject: Re: fork: out of memory In-Reply-To: <199712040152.RAA00762@belvdere.vip.best.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "David E. Fox" Cc: linux-mm List-ID: On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, David E. Fox wrote: > > Was that with my patch running, or wery you trying to get it > > in... On my own system (24Mb) I magaged to compile the kernel > > with 'make -j5' without any problems... > > Without the patch, i.e., clean 2.1.65 (make bzimage though) > [snip] > > I wrote in the other message that I got it to compile OK. > Strangely enough, it failed twice in the same spot (ide.c) which > I haven't yet experienced. Third time though it worked. Maybe you should compile in support and try -M when memory gets tight... > > Strangely enough, I haven't seen any 'cannot fork' messages > today (yet). I got a slew of them yesterday (over 40 messages > saying 'cannot fork'). The only real difference is that netscape > is sitting around. Wierd. Hmm, strange. You'd expect Netscape to grab loads of memory so other programs could get even less... Or was it just 'sitting around' and doing nothing:) grtz, Rik. ---------- Send Linux memory-management wishes to me: I'm currently looking for something to hack...