Re: 2.2.12 myterious crashes

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 24 Sep 1999 23:19:44 +0100 (BST)

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> Is there any way that HEAP_SIZE in arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c
> and/or using gzip -3 to reduce HEAP_SIZE requirements could possibly
> affect the kernel once it is loaded? I'm thinking no off the top of my

If the maths on the heap size is a tiny bit out then you could be very close
to the edge - and get corruption. I can believe it yes

Alan

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