Re: Re: [9fans] system crash during compile

["Francisco J Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>]

You said your stats for memory usage did remain low. Was this the case?
Couldn´t it be running out of the % of memory used by the kernel?
You could try increasing kernelpcent if that was the case.

On 7/11/06, John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/10/06, andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/10/06, John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > So far, nobody can shed any light on the problem? Bugger.
> >
> > didn't russ?
> >
> > anyway, you haven't told us what architecture you have, how much ram,
> > how much hard disk space available and what time of day you're running
> > the command at (don't ask, sometimes it matters)... back in the day
> > ghostscript linking would panic a machine with no swap turned on and
> > only 64MB of ram, but those days are long gone, right?
> >
> > right?!? i mean, i haven't had a need for a swap device since 2002!
> > what is that beastly node on which you must have a kernel compiled,
> > and why can't you just run plan9 in qemu on your main machine?
> >
> Okay, the node is an IBM machine, Pentium 2 processor @ ~300 Mhz, 64
> MB of RAM, ~3 GB of hard drive space. I have a fossil+venti
> configuration set up; exact numbers, I can't tell you, because I'm
> currently 200 miles away from the damn thing. I've tried running the
> command at various times of day.
> I can't run Plan 9 in qemu on my main machine because my main machine
> is somewhere in Ohio at the moment (I think) and I won't have access
> until fall. Besides, it just isn't the same when you're emulating it
> ;-)
>
> John
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