On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 01:21, Tom wrote: > I don't know if this is a 2.6 kernel issue, eclipse, or fedora but here goes... > I've got fc 2 installed with eclipse and j2sdk 1.4.2 from sun. I'm trying to > compile a pretty big project, but I've compiled it before, and its always > worked. However now with FC 2, it dies about 30 seconds in saying the system > is out of resources. I open eclipse with vmArgs Xmx768M (which is what I've > always done, and has worked with redhat9, FC1, and Mandrake 9.1 to compile this > project). In top, as soon as I open eclipse the java process is reported as > taking up 950-980M of RAM. I don't know if this happened in other settings, I > never looked. Anyway, although top reports that java is taking 950M of ram in > the process listing, in the summary it reports that only 200M of ram is being > used by the entire system. Any ideas? > This is a known kernel issue: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2839 Also see the Fedora issue on this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121902 Basically there are two things you can do: a) Either downgrade to the i586 kernel... b) or upgrade to a bleeding edge kernel (one of Arjans for instance, although I'm not a 100% certain that the patch that fixes this is in his kernels) Regards, -- Tarjei
