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- From: dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: What's happening to my memory?
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 03:40:26 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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- Message-ID: <dpn2.196.724218026@po.CWRU.Edu>
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- In article <dpn2.195.724208247@po.CWRU.Edu> dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil) writes:
- >So far as I can tell, something is happening to a fair chunk of the memory
- >on my machine when I run under Linux. I just tried to compile NetHack, and
- >get out of memory errors...with a six meg swap partition active! Something
- >is wrong here...
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- Whoops...never mind! I figured out the problem. I was forgetting to run
- swapon after mkswap... :-/
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- Thanks again to everyone who helped me!
- -----
- Damien Neil dpn2@po.cwru.edu "Until somebody debugs reality, the best
- Case Western Reserve University I can do is a quick patch here and there."
- CMPS/EEAP double majoring masochist - Erik Green
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