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From: AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] out of memory during installation
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 03:51:34
Message-Id: 3B1A01CA.E610B68A@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] out of memory during installation by Daniel Robbins
1 Daniel Robbins wrote:
2 >
3 > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 07:07:49PM +0200, Thorsten Fischer wrote:
4 >
5 > > bzip2 -dc /mnt/cdrom/nameofmytarball.tbz2 | tar -xvf -
6 > >
7 > > which starts, and then breaks after some time with the message:
8 > >
9 > > Out of Memory: Killed process 175 (sash)
10 >
11 > Try "bzip2 -sdc", which will tell bzip2 to reduce memory usage. Yes, it is
12 > quite odd that you are running out of memory with 64Mb, and may have more to do
13 > with the 2.4 kernels' tendency to use lots of swap, which you don't really have
14 > with the boot/root disk combo. I hope that "-sdc" works for you. If you still
15 > have problems, try enabling some swap first.
16
17 I guess this is a 2.4er kernel problem. Such things happen if no swap
18 space is allocated.
19
20 achim~
21
22 >
23 > Best Regards,
24 >
25 > --
26 > Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
27 > President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
28 > Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
29 >
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Re: [gentoo-dev] out of memory during installation Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>