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SubjectRe: 2.2.13: Out of memory during gunzip at boot time
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Julian Thompson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just compiled 2.2.13 and found that the kernel would not uncompress at
> boot time ("Out of memory").
>
> I notice that 2.2.13 changes the gzip compression level from 9 to 3. It seems
> that this change causes gunzip() to use more memory.
>
> I changed the compression level back to 9, and the kernel was able to boot
> again. Is this the correct "fix", or should I be increasing HEAP_SIZE in
> arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c (or neither :-)?

In 2.2.14pre1 both is done.

--
Thomas



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