Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Apr 1999 11:34:42 -0400 (EDT) | From | George <> | Subject | Re: out of memory = stuck on TLB IPI wait |
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On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Horst von Brand wrote:
>For what it might be worth, here (i586 UP, egcs-1.1.2, binutils-2.9.1.0.22b >for 2.2.5) I just compiled lynx a few times until I'd got the configuration >right (the compilation of one particular file is an enormous memory hog, it >went some 45Mb into swap over 32Mb RAM) while playing spider(1) under X. >The system was quite responsive. No troubles at all.
The problem seems to be thread related and probably also SMP related. I can run out of memory with 4 Electric Eyes and nothing happens. But if I try running out of memory with 4 multi-threaded GIMPs, the system dies quickly. It started at 2.2.0-pre7.
-George Greer
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