From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 29 09:46:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA28031 for current-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:46:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ox.ismi.net (root@ox.ismi.net [206.31.56.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA28017 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:46:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aerosmith.dyn.ml.org (mrr@pm3-18.ismi.net [206.31.56.88]) by ox.ismi.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA19246; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 12:45:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 12:38:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael R. Rudel" To: Minsung Kim cc: FreeBSD-CURRENT Usergroup Subject: Re: 3.0-CURRENT kernel anomaly with X In-Reply-To: <33DA8E28.E16EA8BA@mci2000.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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...] -- Michael R. Rudel -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- mrr@aerosmith.dyn.ml.org FreeBSD aerosmith.dyn.ml.org 3.0-CURRENT PGP Key Block: finger mrrpgp@aerosmith.dyn.ml.org When you are born your afraid of the darkness ... Then your afraid of the light ... I'm not afraid when I dance with my shadows ... This time I'm gonna get it right ... -- Aerosmith: Taste of India