Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2000 03:54:42 -0700 | From | Phil Wilshire <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.0-test4 Out Of Memory ?! |
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Justin, I had a similar problem. I downgraded the CPU type to K5 and things started to work I have also heard that append="mem=xxxm" also helps to solve this kind of problem.
Please let me know either works.
Regards Phil Wilshire lineoISG ( formerly Zentropix )
> > In part of my mission to figure out where the heck some of the memory > problems I've been having are coming from, I compiled a 2.4.0-test4 kernel > tonight. (Actually, I've compiled a lot of kernels tonight. But 2.4.0 > was the only one where I saw this problem.) I did the usual, ran lilo, > and rebooted, and got: > > Uncompressing linux... > Booting linux... > > Out of memory > > -- System halted. > > This is all I ever get when I try to boot this kernel. The machine > has 224M of memory in it, so somehow I doubt it's out of memory. > > Machine specs: AMD K6-2/450, Asus P5A Motherboard, 128M memory, sym53c8xx > SCSI card, booting off an IDE hard drive, running SuSE 6.2. > > The memory in the system is brand new, I bought it because I'd been having some > weird memory problems under 2.2.x, and I just figured it was bad memory. > (Getting bus errors in netscape whenever it's memory spikes, if I try to create > a large image in gimp, gimp crashes, SIGILLs and SIGBUSes while compiling > large apps.) I'm seeing the exact same behavior with the new memory, however, > so I started looking for other causes. Anyone have suggestions? I've also > attached my kernel config below. > >
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