Betr.: [parisc-linux] HP C180

Jurriaan Kalkman Jurriaan.Kalkman@zrt.nl
Wed, 26 Sep 2001 08:56:08 +0200


>My c180 is now happily booting (current CVS kernel), however whenever I
>try to ls some dirs (no all, this example is from /usr/bin) I get errors
>along these lines
>ls: memory exhausted
>init-2.04# ls ap*
>Swap cache: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0
>Free swap:            0kB

The 2.4.9 kernel really needs swap, or so I've read on the linux-kernel =
mailing list.
You should add some swap. 2* [size of main memory] is a safe amount.
It's considered a bug, but it needs swap even if there is free memory.....

Good luck,
Jurriaan