Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:55:53 +0100 (CET)
From: Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net>
To: Art Haas <ahaas@airmail.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel memory requirements and BK
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On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Art Haas wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I've been having problems with 'bk pull' execution when using kernels
> after the 2.6.8/2.6.8.1 releases. My machine has 192M of memory and 100M
> of swap, so I believe that the memory requirements for using BK to keep
> up with the kernel is sufficient, and when the machine is running with a
> 2.6.8.1 kernel I can 'bk pull' even if X windows is running. With the
> 2.6.9 and 2.6.10-rc kernels, BK bombs out with out-of-memory errors once
> the repository checking begins. I've run the 'bk pull' under the newer
> kernels without X running, as well as shutting down various daemons, and
> still things fail with memory errors.

Maybe you have some kernel debuging options set? Some of them can eat your 
RAM very fast with fs heavy load.


Grzegorz Kulewski

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