[ back on nov. 15th, Joshua (jdf2026@rit.edu) said: ]

> I am experiencing crashes on a MacII 8MB ram 40MB swap running a 
> kernel built from sources from around november 6. When I put a load on 
> the machine (ie. compiling) the machine has a tendancy to just lock up 
> and stop responding. I end up doing a cold reboot and when I check the 
> log files I don't see any errors. Any ideas?

[ and then from Rick (graul@netcom.com): ]

> I had a similar problem with the system hanging.  I only had 16 Mb of swap, 
> so I suspected that I was running out of memory.  To test this, I wrote a 
> program to allocate memory using sbrk() in a loop, until I ran out.  If I 
> allocated 1 Mb at a time, the system would handle it properly, but if I 
> allocated 1 kb at a time, the, system would lock up.  I don't know if this
> would happen to you, since you seem to have plenty of swap space.

I am having the exact same problem on my IIsi 9MB RAM 45MB swap. (I finally
got around to downloading the 1.1_ALPHA kernels from eskimo)

I am using a complete Nov 4th snapshot from ftp.eskimo.com. If I use an
older kernel from September, I can run just fine.

I can't even get all the way through compiling dt, let alone the kernel. :-(
The machine just stops - no errors, no traps, no debugger, nothing.

Anyone else seen this? Or have an idea what in the kernel may be causing
this, based on Rick's test?

	--John

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