Hello again from Gregg C Levine
Andy makes a good point. What does the syslog output show? On any of my
Linux instances when an exception happens, and I know it wasn't caused by
hardware, I check any one of the logs, but especially the syslog output. Oh,
and on which platform are you building your tree for the DreamCast object
code?
Gregg C Levine drwho8@worldnet.att.net
"How many floors does this TARDIS of yours have, anyway?"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy R" <quadreverb@yahoo.com>
To: "Alex Kirk" <alex@schnarff.com>; <port-dreamcast@netbsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: Swap & Rebooting


> --- Alex Kirk <alex@schnarff.com> wrote:
> > I've been setting up my environment this morning
> > since my successful boot
> > last night, and one of the first problems I ran into
> > was a lack of swap
> > space -- I couldn't compile either lynx or bash
> > without it complaining it
> > was out of swap and dying. So I searched the
> > archives, found a note from
> > early 2001 about creating swap space as provided in
> > the diskless HOTWO, and
> > did so, making a 16MB swap file on the root of the
> > Dreamcast's filesystem:
> >
> >  -rw-r--r--  1 alex  alex  16777216 Aug 24 14:45
> > swap
> >
> > When I tried to compile bash-2.05 again, it got much
> > futher -- apparently it
> > had found the swap space -- but after ~10 minutes of
> > compilation, it
> > spontaneously rebooted. The poster who had mentioned
> > adding swap had warned
> > that there were problems with swap, and that systems
> > using it suffered from
> > instability at times. Is this still true, or has
> > anything been done about
> > it? Should I simply have created a larger swapfile
> > -- say 32 or 64MB (I've
> > got plenty of disk space for such a file on the
> > system that houses the
> > Dreamcast's filesystem)?
>
> Anything interesting in the syslog?
>
> Andy
>
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