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DateSun, 6 Jan 2002 15:40:55 +0100
FromStephan von Krawczynski <>
SubjectRe: 1gb RAM + 1gb SWAP + make -j bzImage = OOM
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 09:57:17 -0800
Nicholas Knight <nknight@pocketinet.com> wrote:

> On Saturday 05 January 2002 07:19 am, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 16:42:43 -0800
> >
> > Nicholas Knight <nknight@pocketinet.com> wrote:
> > > I have absilutely no trouble reproducing on an 800MHz Athlon with
> > > 256MB RAM/256MB swap on 2.4.17
> >
> > The simple question is: is the RAM sufficient at all to spawn such a
> > lot of cc processes? In my setup I get around 1000 concurrently
> > working during -j. This sounds like a real problem for 256/256, or
> > not?
> 
> Matter of scale, did you try a full kernel build with make -j bzImage 
> using whatever your normal config is?

Yes, of course, and it works at my side. Worked with 1GB RAM/256MB swap, works
now with 2GB RAM/256MB swap on stock 2.4.17.

> I still believe this is an innappropriate test, sure if you have tons 
> of RAM and swap it may eventualy complete

I never saw it not completing on my box with 2.4.17, regardless of what I do in
the mean time (writing mails or the like). Of course system performance drops
somehow down when load reaches about 150, but I think this can be expected ;-)

Regards,
Stephan

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