From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7d3530220607091441r4a36f913k9367ad431be04c0b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 14:41:36 -0700 From: "John Floren" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] system crash during compile In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7d3530220607090901h24130f23tcf35bc054bb6534f@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7a483d08-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 7/9/06, Russ Cox wrote: > > Hi everyone. > > I've been trying to compile a new kernel (9pccpuf), but whenever it > > gets to the "size 9pccpuf" point, I get the following error and a > > system crash: > > > > panic: executeio: page out I/O error > > dumpstack disabled > > cpu0: exiting > > > > Admittedly, this system is not the most up to date (can't get dialup > > working), so it could be a bug which is fixed now. However, with my > > slow connection, I would rather not re-download the cd image. Has > > anybody else seen this problem? It looks like it has something to do > > with swap, but the swap had been working OK up until that point. > > Thanks > > You're running out of memory during the 8l command that > precedes the size command in the final linking recipe. > You might also be running out of swap. You could try running > stats to watch your memory and swap usage during the mk > and see if swap fills. > > Russ > I've been running stats. Swap doesn't even reach 1/4 of capacity when the crash occurs. John -- TANSTAAFL! (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch!)