Re: `Out of memory for cc1' in linux-2.2.4

Russell Senior (seniorr@teleport.com)
24 Mar 1999 11:20:45 -0800


>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen C Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> writes:

Russell> After compiling linux-2.2.4 and rebooting to it:

Russell> and in /var/adm/messages, the sort of messages as follow:

Russell> Mar 23 22:23:35 dalles kernel:
Russell> Mar 23 22:23:35 dalles kernel: Out of memory for cc1.
Russell> Mar 23 22:25:09 dalles kernel: put_dirty_page: page already exists
Russell> Mar 23 22:25:09 dalles kernel: put_dirty_page: page already exists

Stephen> This is very bad: something is seriously corrupt somewhere
Stephen> for these put_dirty_page messages to occur. Is the problem
Stephen> reproducible?

Not deterministically, but I have been tending to see a couple or more
of these (mostly the `Out of memory for <foo>') messages on every
recent configure/compile. The seem to have been more frequent under
2.2.1.

Stephen> Are there any other messages in the syslog which might narrow
Stephen> down the problem?

There are no other syslog messages.

-- 
Russell Senior
seniorr@teleport.com

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