On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, David Whysong wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>
I get SIGBUS 7 less often with "256 512 1024", how high should I
raise it to make the problem go away completely - or is this a bug in
the VM subsystem?
Regards,
Y.