Yes, and I HAD experimented earlier with 32 MB, I guess that I had noticed that
it was more stable, but had shut my eyes to that realization and plowed ahead
with the full 128 MB. I suppose my rationale was that if I had paid for the
RAM, I had better damn well use it all.. :P Then, this frantic afternoon, I
realized that I had read about an Alphastation with 128MB, an eb164 with 256MB
and another with 128 MB -- and your UDB with 64, and tried 63... it really does
seem to work so far. virtual console #7 is not filled with bogus memory
addresses, AND, fsck didn't crash while validating my old /usr partition.
fsck crashed consistently with 128 MB, milo 2.0.22, and kernel 2.0.18.
>
> > Also, of course, / and /usr must be on the same partition. (4.0 bug)
>
> Move all of the libnss_* files from /usr/lib to /lib. This will cure the
> problem with rebooting when /usr is on its own partition.
>
Oops, I suppose I should have thought of that, but too late now. I suppose
that having the two together isn't THAT bad.
> > I am reinstalling now with no apparent problems with milo configured to 63 MB.
> > Just moments ago, with 128 MB set as MEMORY_SIZE (in milo..) mkswap crashed,
> > then later, (with swap ignored for the meanwhile) the installer crashed while
> > unpacking the xf86 package.
>
> Ya know I never tried this with my problem. I will try putting my memory
> back in and rebooting as a 63 MB machine and see what happens.
>
> > Well, I'll run like this for a while, hopefully I can build a kernel that will
> > support 128 MB -- PLEASE, though, if anybody knows anything about this
> > disturbing aspect of Linux, let me (us?) know.
>
> I'm investigating the cause of the problem on my system as I write this
> (plowing through kernel source to be exact). I'll let you know what I
> find.
>
this is the most exciting part, as I definitely would rather have 128 MB,
if I can test a kernel for you please let me know.
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>
Rolf Karlstad
Physics
University of Minnesota
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