Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 20:56:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> Cc: Brian Dean <brdean@mindspring.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't install on machine with 8 Meg Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9906132053350.20031-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990612192410.A70348@mad>
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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
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