>In each case I rebooted [1] 2.1.109 and mem=8M or =12M option.
>Starting with pre-cleaned source, timed 'make zImage' [2]
>with the following options and results:
Could you try to repeat some test decreasing the number of inode-max (as
suggested by Bill?)?
echo 300 >/proc/sys/fs/inode-max
^^^ or less
This should decrease the swapping.
>Just to see if anything interesting happens:
>mem = 8 MB, no swap enabled
> overcommit = 0, compile fails with out-of-memory enabled
Nice!
> overcommit = 1, box grinds to a halt, but responds to alt-SysRq
Should be the expected thing.
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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