Subject: Re: port-i386/502: hard hang overnight while recompiling world.
To: None <dan@anarres.mame.mu.oz.au>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 09/28/1994 20:29:15 
   After successfully rebuilding the kernel, I decided to leave the
   machine compiling the userland overnight. This morning, the build
   window was stuck building getpwent.so (ie.. not too far into the
   build process).

Most likely, the combination of make(1) malloc()ing ad infinitum and
GCC eventually consumed all available swap space, and the pager
wedged.