Re: Kernel 2.4.5-pre3

[Ken T. <ke...@we...>]

On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Roman Zippel wrote:

> 'make -j 10' or 'make -j 3' shouldn't make a difference for the memory.

Not disputing what you say but I would have thought that the running makes
and gccs are still being brought into 'execution' memory, from disk
buffers producing more mem activity, and also the more tasks mean more
context switches and more opportunity for errors.

> Anyway, last test to see whether it's the memory. Could you run this
> loop for a while under 2.2: 'while make -j 2; do make clean; done'. Keep
> it running for some time. If the memory is ok and 2.2 is stable, it
> should keep on going.

I'll do that tonight for 10 - 12 hours.

> Otherwise we need to localize what's going wrong, the best would be to
> start with an absolute minimum system, that means a 2.4.5 kernel with

Im currently building what I think is a minimum config, if it boots I'll
start pulling hardware after tonights tests.

Ken.