>>Could it be that the swap default space (5MB) is too small for compiling
>>a kernel with a 4 MB machine. I tried a first kernel build this
>>afternoon on a 386SX 4MB and when I came back after several hours the machine >>seemed to be dead - login from outside was not possible (telnet hung also).
>>This happened during the compilation of tty.c .
>>Is it possible to increase the swap space simply by swapping to a file (swapon)?
>I had similar problems. Sometimes the make hangs and the only remedy is
>a reboot. I managed to build a kernel with ddb. Using CTRL+ALT+ESC I
Good to hear I'm not alone. BTW, I rebooted also and next time I started
make in /sys/compiles/GENERICISA I removed some processes (routed, mountd,
lpd and what else there was not so important) and I got through.
The kernel I rebuilt contained the nfs_patch posted recently. Strange though
it was exactly the same in size (bytes) as the kernel in /. Didn't do a sum
- maybe I trashed sum during installation of etc01.