On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 09:21:52PM +0200, Niels S. Eliasen wrote:
> Hi guys
> I have the weirdest of problems...
> I have installed 1.6.1(and now lately 1.6.0) of my trusty 7300/200 box 
> with 196 MB memory, ), 9Gb Seagate ST39140N disk...
> For a long time I could not the system to compile on 1.6.1... after 
> some time of compilation(various packages from the "pkgsrc" 
> tree:apache, postgresql etc..). I finally gave up thinking there had to 
> be something wrong with the CD or the version of the ISO-image that I 
> had burned ) ...
> Now I have installed 1.6.0 (from a CD where I have very good experience 
> on other systems) and the system behaves in the exact same manner....
> Compiling for instance postgresql goes through it's motions(initially 
> it ran our tmp space on the root partition; no worries, made a soft 
> link to the /usr partition which has some 7GB of free space) ... the 
> system compile and compile, and after a while the system just hangs...
> I am somewhat at a loss here... no discernible dumps/panics or the 
> like... just hangs!
> By the way it is actually the "cc1" program thats running at the time 
> when the 7200 system comes to a standstill....
> 
> Any ideas anyone ?????

Maybe your system is running out of swap ?
Try to run top while compiling, and see how free ram and swap go

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