Subject: Re: SIGSEGV on 1.6.1 dump
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: leam <leam@reuel.net>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 06/28/2003 07:14:10
Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 04:51:51PM -0400, leam wrote:
> 
>>If i do  "ulimit", I get "unlimited". 
> 
> You're using a sh-like shell. try ulimit -a to see all limits,
> and then ulimit with the appropriate option to set the limit you want.
> 
>>If you're saying that a machine 
>>doing nothing but a single login and a single make chokes, I'd say 
>>there's a problem.
> 
> The per-process limit is there to avoid a process getting fool to eat
> all machines ressources. If you know a process will need a hunge amount of
> ressources, you have to set the limits appropriately.
> 
> Maybe you have a problem with your make process too, it usually doesn't need
> that much ressources.

Stoned Elipot pointed out that I need to patch the bind source I got, or 
the gcc. The error is outside the normal.

	"You're doing nothing wrong, it's a gcc bug.
	Apply the patch in pkgsrc/net/bind9/patches/patch-ai."


However, as I've learned stuff I didn't know from this thread, life is good!

ciao!

leam