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From: Thorsten Fischer <frosch@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] out of memory during installation
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 11:08:30
Message-Id: Pine.SOL.4.10.10106021852230.2442-100000@bolero
1 Hi list!
2
3 To make sure all of you can have a nice weekend, I report the
4 following problem. Please bear with me if I miss something obvious,
5 as I think this problem should not occur at all.
6
7 After having built a tarball for a 'build installation' and having burnt
8 that thing to a CD, I grabbed root and rescue disk, booted them,
9 created reiser file systems on my partitions and mounted them. Then
10 I tried
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12 bzip2 -dc /mnt/cdrom/nameofmytarball.tbz2 | tar -xvf -
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14 which starts, and then breaks after some time with the message:
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16 Out of Memory: Killed process 175 (sash)
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18 The box has 64 megs of RAM, the tarball is about 350megs in size. Weird
19 enough, this also happens with the default-i686-20010524.tbz2 archive
20 from ibiblio.org.
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23 The more time I spend with gentoo, and the more traffic I generate on
24 the list, the more I want to have that thing up and running! =)
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26
27 Achim, Daniel -- and the rest of you all who answered too, thank you! --,
28 I will get back to you because of the magazine article next week; I have
29 loads of other work to do before I can dive into gentoo the way it
30 deserves.
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33 thorsten
34
35 --
36
37 thorsten fischer
38
39 <frosch at derfrosch dot de>
40 <tfischer at linux minus magazin dot de>
41
42 groessere mengen hostien sind schwer zu beschaffen

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Re: [gentoo-dev] out of memory during installation Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>