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Date:      Mon, 08 Jul 1996 18:52:54 -0400
From:      Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net>
To:        James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: makeing world
Message-ID:  <31E19146.60D1@ime.net>
References:  <199607071029.KAA01447@jraynard.demon.co.uk>

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James Raynard wrote:
> 
> > > > I'm having problems making world, It keeps crashing and I don't
> > > > get a chance to see the screen before it re-boots and eats
> > > > my source tree.
> > >
> > > Any clues in /var/log/messages?
> >
> > Nope, Nothing.. I looked even though I didn't think make writes
> > anything to log/messages.
> 
> It doesn't, but if there's a system problem (like a panic) it should
> get logged.
> 

Yea, But nothing..

> My suspicion is that you ran out of virtual memory; when this happens,
> FreeBSD starts killing off processes to try and make more room, and it
> may have killed off init(8) by mistake. I don't think you'd get a log
> entry in these circumstances.
> 

I geuss, It did complete in single user so...
Kind of afraid to try it again in multiuser, It ate my src tree.
(No big deal though)

-Enjoy
Gary
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