Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 12:38:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael R. Rudel" <mrr@aerosmith.dyn.ml.org> To: Minsung Kim <stair@mci2000.com> Cc: FreeBSD-CURRENT Usergroup <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 3.0-CURRENT kernel anomaly with X Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970729123736.395B-100000@aerosmith.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <33DA8E28.E16EA8BA@mci2000.com>
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On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Minsung Kim wrote:
> I've upgraded my kernel to -current recently, and seeing these weird things
> during X is running. (The symptom goes worse if Netscape 4.01b6[en] for Linux
> 2.0 is running.)
>
> o Many instances of of shell scripts die screaming "out of swap space." That's
> seen on the console like this:
>
> Jul 25 00:01:34 x /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
> Jul 25 00:01:37 x /kernel: pid 2553 (bash), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space
>
> o Compilation of program fails occasionally with apparently absurd errors -- I
> can't catch any errors in the source code -- when a simple retry succeeds.
> o Outputs of compiled code varies from time to time. (I noticed it building my
> kernel -- I usually builds the kernel twice and compares object files to each
> other, except for vers.o.)
> o The 1st characters of items on my TWM menu are garbled. (For instance, "File
> Runner" sometimes looks "Nile Runner", etc. :-&)
>
> Does any of these ring a bell? TIA.
Somebody has probably replied by now, but try a make world from
/usr/src... I've had this problem (or similar to this) once or twice...
I've found if your system is broke, a make world is the happy, easy, fix
that takes ~8 hours. ;)
> [...SNIP...]
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