[NTLUG:Discuss] Homemade machine locking up at swap

[Cameron]

* gin at driver8.net [2000.02.07 20:28]:
: I recently built a 128 MB Celeron 500 with a 6 Gig drive. It has a 
: SuperMicro motherboard. Everything went fine. I built another one, but used 
: a 20 Gig drive. It doesn't work quite right. From my estimation, it locks 
: the moment it has to page memory out. This was brought to my attention when 
: I compiled MySQL. There is a point at which memory becomes scarce upon 
: compiling a file called "sql_lyacc.cc." The little machine (6 Gig) does it 
: fine (takes a while - 30 sec or so). The 20 Gig machine locks. I have 128 
: MB swap partitions on both.
: 
: The hard drive is on the primary IDE controller, while the CDROM is on the 
: secondary (because the machine has a 2U chassis and the hard drive is too 
: far away from the CDROM to use the same IDE cable, and Radio Shack only had 
: IDE cables, not extensions so I took what I could get). It seems like it is 
: the hard drive. But what?
: 
: Anyone have any suggestions? Is the hard drive just too slow?
: 

this may be irrelevent, but i seem to remember the MySQL docs giving
some specific directions to compiling if you have a small swap
partition.  it's been several months since i compiled it, but i seem to
remember something about this.  hope this helps...
-- 
cameron
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