Subject: Re: kbuild: modules_install regression ? - depmod
From: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: devzero@web.de, jcm@jonmasters.org,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, dl9pf@gmx.de
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Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:48:46 -0500
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On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 02:42 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> [Adding jcm to Cc]
> 
> On Dec 28 2007 16:08, devzero@web.de wrote:
> >
> >i have the same issue, but with 2.6.24-rc6 on a box with 512MB RAM
> >
> >System is openSUSE 10.3
> >
> >on "make modules_install" , depmod reproduceably dies with out of memory error when it is ~800MB VSZ and ~350MB RSS
> >this happens on different hardware.
> >
> >any clue what`s going wrong?
> >how much memory should i expect being needed with "make modules_install" , e.g. with allmodconfig ?
> 
> 
> If you enable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO, don't be surprised.
> 
> Though I'd say depmod should ignore the debug sections.

Thanks for the head's up. I'll look at that, and adding the module
ordering stuff over the weekend - been unplugged for the holidays.

Jon.


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