Daniel Robbins wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 07:07:49PM +0200, Thorsten Fischer wrote:
> 
> >   bzip2 -dc /mnt/cdrom/nameofmytarball.tbz2 | tar -xvf -
> >
> > which starts, and then breaks after some time with the message:
> >
> > Out of Memory: Killed process 175 (sash)
> 
> Try "bzip2 -sdc", which will tell bzip2 to reduce memory usage.  Yes, it is
> quite odd that you are running out of memory with 64Mb, and may have more to do
> with the 2.4 kernels' tendency to use lots of swap, which you don't really have
> with the boot/root disk combo.  I hope that "-sdc" works for you.  If you still
> have problems, try enabling some swap first.

I guess this is a 2.4er kernel problem. Such things happen if no swap
space is allocated.

achim~

> 
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> 
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