Messages in this thread |  | | From | "David E. Weekly" <> | Subject | Kernel Compile in tmpfs crumples in 2.4.12 w/epoll patch | Date | Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:06:43 -0700 |
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Hey all,
I was trying to speed up kernel compiles experimentally by moving the source tree into tmpfs and compiling there. It seemed to work okay and crunched through the dep phase and most of the main build phase just fine, but then it hit a file, got an internal segfault, and stopped. I tried again -- this time make itself segfaulted. Three more times of make segfaulting -- a strace on make didn't reveal what was failing. Then strace started segfaulting. Eventually "ls" segfaulted and the machine needed to be manually rebooted. Ouch!
I ran the full memtest86 suite on the machine, and it passed with flying colors. So the memory proper is okay.
I come to one of two conclusions: this is a wierd problem with my north bridge, or there's something funky going on with tmpfs.
Is tmpfs stable?
Yours, -david
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