Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:20:44 +0200 (MEST) | From | Matthias Hanisch <> | Subject | Re: Strange 2.2.X hard hang.... |
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On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 1) LILO loads kernel, kernel starts decompressing, and quickly hangs > > with "Out of Memory" ... some kernels that I build just always fail like > > this, some kernels that I build happen to get past decompression without > > problems.... I can't see any obvious pattern to which ones have this > > problem > > There is a patch for this (it uses gzip -3 not gzip -9 to avoid running > out of boot workspace). That will make the rest of life easier.
I think the right fix is to increase the HEAP_SIZE to a sane value (which got into 2.3.15 BTW).
--- v2.3.14/linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c Wed Jun 24 14:30:08 1998 +++ linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c Thu Aug 19 10:49:13 1999 @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ #define LOW_BUFFER_START 0x2000 #define LOW_BUFFER_END 0x90000 #define LOW_BUFFER_SIZE ( LOW_BUFFER_END - LOW_BUFFER_START ) -#define HEAP_SIZE 0x2000 +#define HEAP_SIZE 0x3000 static int high_loaded =0; static uch *high_buffer_start /* = (uch *)(((ulg)&end) + HEAP_SIZE)*/;
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