On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Doesn't dh_shlibdeps work under Hurd or what? > It does, a simple recompile will fix everything. the broken dependency is > cruft (check the date of the gdb package and you'll see what I mean...)
Ouch.. that wasn't very new, no. :) > > It's fairly straighforward.. check in the configure.in for the section > > about architectures. (search for ARCHITECTURE) > Well, yes. I will check everything. What I mean with arhcitecture stuff > above is mostly Debian oriented (eg, the fact that debian/rules files are > often linux specific or use broken dpkg interface to get the architecture). I guess you're right about this. > There should be some space reserved for essential tasks. I agree it is too > easy > to crash it by using up all memory, but Linux is not perfect, too. Try an > application that is sucking up all memory without free()'ing, switch to root > console and try "ps" or try to login on another console. You won't be able > to kill the process or reboot or anything -> you have to do a hard reboot. That's what ulimit's are for. :) > So, although there is room for improvement, this is easily circumvented by > having a lot of swap :) Yeah, I created a 100 meg swap partition. For some reason, though, Hurd says it's partially "marked as bad" or something equally weird.. and I can't figure out why. Is there a "free" command for Hurd?
