> So I guess my questions are: > > 1. Assuming that we need more memory, why not all of the swap is used? > I am not trying to say that there's something wrong with 'cvs', rather > just trying to understand the problem. On a 32 bits OS, you rarely can allocate more than 2GB per process for structural reasons of the OS itself (shared libraries, code, stack... are generally placed at an arbitrary place)... maybe with Linux64 plus a 64 bits build of CVS you could fix your problem. The swap has nothing to do with that sadly, the OS will not let you allocate the memory you have (physical or swap) in a single process if you have more than 2GB or so (maybe it is a bit more if Linux is better organized than Windows)
wish it helps Armel _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs