--- Alex Kirk <alex@schnarff.com> wrote:
> I've been setting up my environment this morning
> since my successful boot 
> last night, and one of the first problems I ran into
> was a lack of swap 
> space -- I couldn't compile either lynx or bash
> without it complaining it 
> was out of swap and dying. So I searched the
> archives, found a note from 
> early 2001 about creating swap space as provided in
> the diskless HOTWO, and 
> did so, making a 16MB swap file on the root of the
> Dreamcast's filesystem: 
> 
>  -rw-r--r--  1 alex  alex  16777216 Aug 24 14:45
> swap 
> 
> When I tried to compile bash-2.05 again, it got much
> futher -- apparently it 
> had found the swap space -- but after ~10 minutes of
> compilation, it 
> spontaneously rebooted. The poster who had mentioned
> adding swap had warned 
> that there were problems with swap, and that systems
> using it suffered from 
> instability at times. Is this still true, or has
> anything been done about 
> it? Should I simply have created a larger swapfile
> -- say 32 or 64MB (I've 
> got plenty of disk space for such a file on the
> system that houses the 
> Dreamcast's filesystem)? 

Anything interesting in the syslog?

Andy

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