Re: -j zImage

Michael Stiller (michael@toyland.ping.de)
Sat, 17 Oct 1998 01:21:37 +0200

>
> This just means that you ran out of processes. If I remember right then the
> limit is 512 processes. Start top on another console and see the number of
> processes increase rapidly.

I raised the process limit to 2048 and the number of open files in
include/linux/fs.h to 8192 (or higher) to do a make -j zImage with
2.1.125.
During the compilation top died with "Help! Too many processes".
Besides that, it took hours to complete with a 333Mhz P2 with
128Mb physical RAM and a single 1024Mb swap partition.
Something in the Makefiles seems to be changed.

-Michael

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