Re: out of memory in 2.0.30...

Trevor Johnson (trevor@jpj.net)
Tue, 20 May 1997 20:31:20 +0000 (Local time zone must be set--see zic manual pagtrevor@jpj.net


> Looks like the kernel is aggressivly paging programs out to make room for
> buffer cache... to the point that I can't compile (gcc: exausted virtual memory)dmesg only has complaints about being unable to allocate a DMA buffer for
> sound. I see the latest stable version is still 2.0.30... is there a pre-31
> patch out I could test?

Yes, there's Dave Miller's at
ftp://vger.rutgers.edu/pub/linux/kernel/testing/pre-patch-2.0.31.gz but it
doesn't seem to entirely fix the buffer cache.
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Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>