Re: [PATCH]Uncompressing Linux... Out of memory: fixed by increased HEAP_SIZE

[Ingo Molnar]

* Karsten Wiese <annabellesgarden@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> booting newest 2.6.9 experimental kernels, I frequently encountered 
> "Uncompressing Linux... Out of memory --System halted"
> In some mail archive I found the (obvious ;-) solution: Increase HEAP_SIZE.
> 
> Here in line 122 of arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c this
> 	#define HEAP_SIZE             0x4000
> instead of 
> 	#define HEAP_SIZE             0x3000
> made 2.6.9-mm1-RT-U10.3 boot again.

ah! Makes sense. Did you have LATENCY_TRACE enabled? That compiles the
kernel with -pg which creates a fatter stackframe.

	Ingo
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