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 1EGIJH-0000ko-M0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:39:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j8GFY2Ti003006; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:34:02 GMT Received: from pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8GFY1Dj019788 for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:34:02 GMT Received: from pd5mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr4so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.168]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IMX00J1C258L1B0@l-daemon> for gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:39:08 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml8so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.152]) by pd5mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IMX002BV258IHL0@pd5mr4so.prod.shaw.ca> for gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:39:08 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (S0106000f665a5092.ed.shawcable.net [68.149.190.225]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IMX00H2X257Q7@l-daemon> for gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:39:08 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:37:50 -0600 From: Hardave Riar Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] bootstrap.sh on asus wl500g In-reply-to: <20050916143947.GG1024@ices.utexas.edu> To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <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; format=flowed; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <20050916133443.GA1024@ices.utexas.edu> <432ACE12.2040600@gentoo.org> <20050916140702.GF1024@ices.utexas.edu> <432AD5CF.80204@gentoo.org> <20050916143947.GG1024@ices.utexas.edu> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050417) X-Archives-Salt: 689cf6c6-9960-4924-8575-fc52dda96680 X-Archives-Hash: 0fbcd1b2345ec4a6f3d8b5fd111bd7cb Jason Pepas wrote: > I guess this is the part I don't understand. As far as I understand it, > a page of memory exists either in physical RAM, or on a swap device, and > the only entity who can tell the difference is the kernel. Please > understand that it's not that I am not listening, it's that I don't > understand how what you are saying can be true. The interesting thing > for me at this point would be to find out how a process can fail if it > is given swap instead of RAM. 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. Hardave -- gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list