On Tuesday 14 February 2006 21:14, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Well, so that was it! I just finished compiling gcc. > I wonder why those limits were set for user root?! > My home computer didn't have such restriction, and I recently made a new > install on the computer that had all this problem, so I'm sure I didn't > do it myself and forgot it... Check /etc/limits to see what the defaults are. I'd also look at any shell scripts that are being sourced during login (/etc/profile ~/.bashrc, etc.).
> It's a relief to know it's not hw problem! Memory allocation is one of those things that usually isn't. Normally you'd see physical memory errors as programs randomly crashing (like the kernel, with no PANIC). You also might notice when you start the system up that it is reporting less memory than you have installed. > Thank you, and thanks also to Benno and Zac. Very appreciated. -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
