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SubjectRe: 2.2.1 mkfs.ext2 out of memory
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> Sometimes big swap helps but NOT ALWAYS. I was unable to set up RedHat 4.2
> on comp with 11MiB RAM and 1GiB HDD even with 128MiB swap but with 31MiB
> all was just fine without any swap :-(( Plus your "rule-of-thumb" will give

Linux 2.0.30 - 2.0.35 has a problem when nothing was causing pages to be
reclaimed. That caused installer hangs and little else.

2.2.1 (and fortunately not 2.2.2pre4) has a problem where it doesnt stop a
mke2fs filling so much ram it kills everything.

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