> Seeing as I have been having the same signal 7 problems that others
> reported, I applied Ingo's patch and did:
>
> [root@Sleepy linux-2.1.36]# make zImage MAKE="make -j20"
>
> It went for a while, then died like this:
>
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.1.36/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
> -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -D__SMP__ -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486
> -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -D__SMP__
> -c -o dcache.o dcache.c
> SIGBUS: ayiee, couldnt allocate page table.
> gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 7
could you try "echo 128 256 512 > /proc/sys/vm/freepages" ?
-- mingo