Gentoo Archives: gentoo-mips

From: Jason Pepas <cell@×××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-mips@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] bootstrap.sh on asus wl500g
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:53:37
Message-Id: 20050916155325.GJ1024@ices.utexas.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-mips] bootstrap.sh on asus wl500g by Hardave Riar
1 On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:37:50AM -0600, Hardave Riar wrote:
2 > The kernel can only swap out pages that are not active. So on your box if a
3 > single running process requires more than 32MB of active memory it will
4 > fail since the kernel can not give it that much, even if you have 3Tb of
5 > swap space. Where this seems to bite alot of people on mips is doing the
6 > actual compile of glibc, where certain parts of it fail if you have less
7 > than 128MB because a single gcc process requires that much.
8
9 Ahh, now I see. Thanks for explaining that.
10
11 -jason pepas
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