Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 05:06:50 -0500 From: Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup failing with "ASSERT failed" Message-ID: <406FDE3A.2080002@alumni.rice.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040404045536.GA56971@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20030827035836.GC352@freebsd2.localnet10> <20040404045536.GA56971@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On 4/3/2004 10:55 PM, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:58:36PM -0500, none wrote: >>A couple of times, now, on both FBSD-5.1-CURRENT and FBSD-4.8-STABLE whilst >>running with 2MB of RAM, cvsup has "croaked" with the following error: >> >>*** >>*** runtime error: >>*** ASSERT failed >>*** file "/usr/ports/lang/ezm3/work/ezm3-1.0/libs/m3core/src/runtime/ >>common/RTHeapMap.m3", line 35 >>*** >> use option @M3stackdump to get a stack trace >>Abort trap (core dumped) > > 2MB? Are you serious? This must be a typo -- even PicoBSD requires 4MB of RAM to do anything useful. I ran a 486/DX4 100MHz machine with 20MB of RAM (the max for the motherboard) as a WINS server for a while (to help link college dorm subnets so people would see more computers in Network Neighborhood). The only way I kept the machine up-to-date was to build world, kernel, and packages on another machine and then install over NFS. This worked pretty well, although an installworld over NFS on a fast network still took a few hours. I started using this method after I let a buildworld go for over 2 _days_ without finishing, and this with 4.x (5.x would be even longer!). The disk performance was so bad that swapping over NFS actually *sped* things up. In any case, the machine was rock solid, though, racking up 100+ day uptimes between security patches. It was actually this machine that got me started with FreeBSD, because 20MB of RAM was too little for RedHat (I think it needed 32MB). I've been using FreeBSD ever since... Jon
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