Stefan Monnier schreef: >> "Jelle" == Jelle De Loecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> svn or cvs, or when I'm >> trying to compile something directly on my freerunner, it would just lock >> up. Freeze completely. >> > My guess is that it's just thrashing wildly. The machine only > has 128MB. If you fill this memory with "large" processes (or with > data on tmpfs filesystems), you can quickly get to the point where of > those 128MB only a handful of pages are actually swappable, so the > device ends up thrashing like mad. > > If you add a swap area (of say 128MB), you should see much better > behavior since Linux will then be able to swap out pages of inactive > processes (and files in tmpfs) so as to keep more RAM for useful stuff. > > Of course, if you really actively use more than 128MB at the same time, > no amount of swap space will save you. > > Stefan > That's probably it.
I know I had some problems with tmpfs before, that's why I removed those "partitions" so that it would just use the space on my filesystem. I'm actually using a µSD card of 2 GiB, with 1.3 GiB free, so I should have enough space free to create a swap partition. I'll give it a try tonight. Thanks for your help! Jelle De Loecker _______________________________________________ support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support
