Re: -j zImage

Jochen Heuer (jogi@planetzork.ping.de)
Sun, 18 Oct 1998 15:43:27 +0200

On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 08:33:01AM +0200, Clifford Wolf wrote:
>
> > >make[2]: vfork: Nicht genügend Hauptspeicher verfügbar
> >
> > How did you see this meesage? Why these messages are not in English?
> >
> > >which basically means out of memory.
> > ^^^^^^^^^
> > This is why you should remove translation from your kernel messages.
> >
> > Are you sure to be really out of memory and not out of process? That are
> > completly different issues. To increase the number of process available on
> > the system you need to hack linux/include/linux/tasks.h
>
> The exact translation for 'Nicht gengend Hauptspeicher verfgbar' would
> be 'Not enought memory available' - which basically means 'Out of memory'.

That's correct but it was caused by some ulimits. After raising those limits
to unlimited these messages disappeared. Instead the system used all swap and
nearly all available memory (there were always approx. 2MB free) und the
system was creeping. But unfortunatly I don't remember if the system was
running 2.1.126-pre1 or 2.1.125-ac2+oomv11.

> But it defently does not mean 'Out of processes' ...

Well. At least the system did not crash. Sysrq was working and so I could
reboot cleanly. I don't know if ctrl+c would have worked. I didn't want to
wait so long.

Regards,

Jogi

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