Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Apr 1997 11:11:11 -0400 (EDT) | From | yuri mironoff <> | Subject | Re: Signal 7 and "Couldn't get a free page..." |
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Hello,
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, David Whysong wrote: > > > Seeing as I have been having the same signal 7 problems that others > > reported, I applied Ingo's patch and did: > > > > [root@Sleepy linux-2.1.36]# make zImage MAKE="make -j20" > > > > It went for a while, then died like this: > > > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.1.36/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes > > -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -D__SMP__ -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 > > -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -D__SMP__ > > -c -o dcache.o dcache.c > > SIGBUS: ayiee, couldnt allocate page table. > > gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 7 > > could you try "echo 128 256 512 > /proc/sys/vm/freepages" ? > > -- mingo > >
I get SIGBUS 7 less often with "256 512 1024", how high should I raise it to make the problem go away completely - or is this a bug in the VM subsystem?
Regards,
Y.
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