On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Alastair Gregory wrote: > Has anyone experienced the following problem? > > I recently installed Debian (from Stable disks I obtained > from debian.org a couple months back) on a Compaq Deskpro 50M > EISA box with 8MB RAM and a 340MB drive, 2 LAN cards > (SMC ELite 16 and Ultra) and an Orchid Fahrenheit > video adapter. This is a 486-50, I believe. > > Installation went fine (except that the install menus > were as slow as molasses). I only installed the base > system - no additional packages.I booted the machine > into multi-user mode, logged in as 'root' and left it > running for a day or so. > > Returning to the machine after a couple of days, I saw a > screenful of messages like: > "Couldn't get a free page....." > > and finally, at the bottom of the screen: > "Out of memory for bash." > > I Alt-Fkey'ed to other virtual terminals, but couldn't log on. > > I haven't been able to re-create the problem, but left it > on over the week-end. I hope it's still running when I get to > work tomorrow. > > One possible explanation: my EISA config was out of sync > with reality, because someone had nicked memory from the machine. > I have since run the EISA config utility and fixed it. > > TIA, > Alastair Gregory
Unless you don't have (enough) swap space. Use the free command to see what is happening. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ + http://www.wtop.com/ What does W.T.O.P. mean? + +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
