Re: 1gb RAM + 1gb SWAP + make -j bzImage = OOM

[Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw _at_ ithnet.com>]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 16:42:43 -0800
Nicholas Knight <nknight _at_ pocketinet.com> wrote:


> I have absilutely no trouble reproducing on an 800MHz Athlon with 256MB 
> RAM/256MB swap on 2.4.17

The simple question is: is the RAM sufficient at all to spawn such a lot of cc
processes? In my setup I get around 1000 concurrently working during -j. This
sounds like a real problem for 256/256, or not?

Regards,
Stephan

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