From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EGIWv-0000tK-6u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:53:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j8GFmJhI017965; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:48:19 GMT Received: from ices.utexas.edu (vortex.ices.utexas.edu [128.83.68.102]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8GFmINk021404 for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:48:18 GMT Received: from block.ices.utexas.edu (block.ices.utexas.edu [128.83.68.107]) by ices.utexas.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7203F30A75 for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:53:46 -0500 (CDT) Received: by block.ices.utexas.edu (Postfix, from userid 2120) id 5168A52F90; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:53:25 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:53:25 -0500 From: Jason Pepas To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] bootstrap.sh on asus wl500g Message-ID: <20050916155325.GJ1024@ices.utexas.edu> References: <20050916133443.GA1024@ices.utexas.edu> <432ACE12.2040600@gentoo.org> <20050916140702.GF1024@ices.utexas.edu> <432AD5CF.80204@gentoo.org> <20050916143947.GG1024@ices.utexas.edu> <432AE6CE.204@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <432AE6CE.204@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Archives-Salt: 66b83e34-c145-464e-b3dd-2d8de0146a4c X-Archives-Hash: 2d984704598ede03c1d5af58edcfe33d On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:37:50AM -0600, Hardave Riar wrote: > The kernel can only swap out pages that are not active. So on your box if a > single running process requires more than 32MB of active memory it will > fail since the kernel can not give it that much, even if you have 3Tb of > swap space. Where this seems to bite alot of people on mips is doing the > actual compile of glibc, where certain parts of it fail if you have less > than 128MB because a single gcc process requires that much. Ahh, now I see. Thanks for explaining that. -jason pepas -- gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list