Messages in this thread |  | | From | Michael Covi <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: missing "drivers/hotplug" tree in 2.4.14 and the 2.4.15-patch | Date | Sun, 25 Nov 2001 18:18:17 +1100 |
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Have you checked to make sure you have your swap mounted ok?
I had a similar problem last week after doing a install with a unfamiliar distribution. I had allocated 512M but for some reason mkswap was not run. So when i tried to use a memory hungry app OOM killed it as it should.
On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 07:00, Dietmar Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running 2.4.14 on top of a SuSE Linux 7.3 distribution. I took the > complete sources myself from kernel.org corr. to an older Latest-Is > Announce. > > Installing, configuring, compiling and all went fine with 2.4.14 so far... > (in fact it works fine for me although SuSE-Kernels in some way differ from > orginal sources...) > > My /proc/version (although I don't think it important for the further > problem > > description...) gives: > > Linux version 2.4.14 (root@sirius) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)) > > Today I downloaded patch-2.4.15 and applied it. As I suggest it went okay > as no Hmm..'s came up. > > When trying to configure the 2.4.15 kernel (using "make menuconfig") from > an konsole within kde the latter crashed. > > Checking for the cause /var/log/messages gave: > > Nov 24 19:06:31 sirius kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2595 > > (kdeinit). Nov 24 19:06:37 sirius kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process > > 2593 (kdeinit). Nov 24 19:06:39 sirius kernel: Out of Memory: Killed > > process 2604 (kdeinit). > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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