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.

Best Regards,

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Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@g.o>
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc.