Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Jul 1998 14:25:20 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: some low-memory 2.1.109 compile times |
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On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Robert Hamilton wrote:
>In each case I rebooted [1] 2.1.109 and mem=8M or =12M option. >Starting with pre-cleaned source, timed 'make zImage' [2] >with the following options and results:
Could you try to repeat some test decreasing the number of inode-max (as suggested by Bill?)?
echo 300 >/proc/sys/fs/inode-max ^^^ or less
This should decrease the swapping.
>Just to see if anything interesting happens: >mem = 8 MB, no swap enabled > overcommit = 0, compile fails with out-of-memory enabled
Nice!
> overcommit = 1, box grinds to a halt, but responds to alt-SysRq
Should be the expected thing.
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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