Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 07 Feb 1999 20:40:45 -0600 | From | Steve Bergman <> | Subject | Re: Bus error in _very_ low memory in 2.2.1 |
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Steve Bergman wrote: > > Hi, > > For my own enjoyment I've been playing around with 2.2.1 under _extremely_ low > memory conditions. (LILO: linux single mem=1718k) The only kernel configuration > options selected are ELF , E2FS, and basic IDE support. I do not even have > /proc selected. > > One thing that I have noticed is that even after swapon -a has completed > successfully and there is plenty of swap I get "Bus Errors" when executing > simple commands like vi. Shouldn't these just be slow and not error out like > that? I post this only in hopes that it might help someone track down a bug > occuring in a more common configuration than 1.7M ;-). I don't seem to see > these in a 2M configuration. >
Forgot to mention that this is a UP kernel compiled for 386. No other console messages reported.
-Steve
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