On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 03:42:34AM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > I'm just installing hurd for the first time. Finally have it booting, but > I'm still having a bit of a prob: > > At the moment I'm compiling XF86 3.3.6 .
Are you sure this is the first thing you want to do? :) (Don't let me discourage you, though) > More to the point, during the > compile, somewhat intermittantly, the system will freeze up. Better is to interrupt it before it crashes and reboot. Best is to compile on a seperate partition (not the root partition), so if it crashes, the rest of the system is still alive. > I have a K7 w/fic mobo; 13gb IDE, with 980mb set aside for hurd. Of course, X build tree does not fit on a single Hurd partition... > During compiling X, ext2fs.static takes inordinate percentages of CPU time > The only thing I've found that seems to help (a little, though this is > ignorance speaking) is to run fsysopts --sync=10 or so. This (a) does > nothing, or (b) helps just a little bit (seems that the crashes take > longer to occur with frequent syncing). The default sync interval is 5, so you make it longer. > Any suggestions as how I might go about dealing with this? When compiling on a seperate partition, you can attach gdb to the crashing ext2fs process and get a backtrace. When I last compiled X, it took three days and nights on my P100, and it did not crash a single time. However, this was before the ext2fs server was upgraded to reflect changes in the ext2fs format. :-/ Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
