From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 13 20:57: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 705AE15099 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 20:57:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA24869; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 20:56:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 20:56:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Tim Vanderhoek Cc: Brian Dean , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't install on machine with 8 Meg In-Reply-To: <19990612192410.A70348@mad> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 01:08:00PM -0400, Brian Dean wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm installing 4.0-19990610-SNAP onto a machine with 8 Meg of memory > > and it fails as follows: > > > > pid 6 (sh), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space > > There's a rumour going around that you need 12 meg to install. Why, I > don't know. Becuase in 8MB sysinstall mysteriously tanks during extraction, and works fine with 12. No error message is produced, so I'm guessing it's a non- or silently-errorchecked malloc(). I can reproduce this. The docs are all wrong, thus the PR. Took us a while to figure out what was going on as NO ERROR MESSAGE WAS PRODUCED Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message