On Mon, 10 Jul 1995, Jeremy C. McDermond wrote:

> 
> I got the miniroot from gregoio.stanford.edu and loaded it on my DECStation
> 2100 this week, the thing boots okay - and generally looks pretty cool.  The
> only problem is that during long compiles, it seems to hang.  I remember hearing
> that there were questions on whether the kernel was really paging correctly,
> and thougth of this as a possible cause.  I can't compile a kernel because it 
> hangs half way in the middle.  Hardware is:
> 
> 	DS2100
> 	Mono FB
> 	12 Mb Memory
> 	2 x IBM 1Gb F/W SCSI disks (Root partition is on one of these)
> 	1 x RZ55

Beef up your RAM to at least 16MB (preferably more). Paging is broken in 
pmax, and a pmax kernel compile uses about 15 MB to completion.

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