> Ouch! When compiling MySql, building sql_yacc.cc results in a ~300M
> cc1plus process size. Unfortunately this leads the machine with 380M of
> RAM deeply into swap:
>
> Mem: 381608K av, 248504K used, 133104K free, 0K shrd, 192K
> buff
> Swap: 255608K av, 255608K used, 0K free 215744K
> cached
That is supposed to hapen. The pages are existing both in swap and memory but
not recovered. In that state the VM hasn't even broken yet.
Where you hit a problem is that the 255Mb of stuff both in memory and swap
won't be flushed from swap when you need more swap space. That is a giant size
special edition stupid design flaw that is on the VM hackers list. But there
are only a finite number of patches you can do in a day, and things like
sucking completely came first I believe
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