On 02/20/07 11:44, Arone Silimantia wrote:
--- Eric Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
after this attempt, swapinfo still shows zero swap
in use.
What does this mean ?
Is my system now in an unstable state ? Should I
reboot ?
Did you try reducing your maxdsiz to something a few
hundred mb's less?
No - after the 'make install' stopped I have not
touched anything. As I said, swapinfo still shows
zero swap being used.
It's a Big Deal (TM) to bring this system down, and I
believe maxdsiz cannot be tuned on the fly with sysctl
... are you suggesting that either make or cc just
gets out of hand and makes a process too big for
themselves ?
If so, is it possible to tell make or cc to behave
ahead of time, and leave maxdsiz alone ?
I don't know, but this seems to be a VM related issue (not issue as in
bug). I think you've probably allocated pretty much all your memory to
user-space stuff, and not left enough for the system to function. If
you're on i386, and have all that set in maxdsiz, you're probably too
close to the ceiling. I would drop it by ~500MB or so just to be safe.
I'm absolutely no expert in this at all - I only suggested it because
after tweaking my maxdsiz to a very large amount like you did (to allow
for fsck), I successfully paniced my box on boot. So, knowing that, I
would drop it down a bit.
Eric
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