Re: Linux 2.2.13pre18

Thomas Speck (Thomas.Speck@univ-rennes1.fr)
Tue, 19 Oct 1999 15:47:28 +0000 ( )


On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Matthias Hanisch wrote:

> > Booting 2.2.13pre18 gives me an 'out of memory' after 'uncompressing'
> > message. All other 2.2.13pre kernel work fine.
> >
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 498940 Oct 13 17:33 vmlinuz-2.2.13pre17
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 498907 Oct 19 13:54 vmlinuz-2.2.13pre18
>
> Try to increase the HEAP_SIZE constant to 0x3000 in
> linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c (as set in current 2.3.x kernels).
>
> I don't know if this has already changed in recent 2.2.x versions. The
> last version I used had the constant set to 0x2000 which could be too
> small under certain circumstances (speak: gzipped kernel images).

In 2.2.13pre18 it is set to 0x2000, so I changed it and it solved the
problem.

Could this be changed 'officially' in pre19 ?

Thanks

--
Thomas

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