Re: why does the kernel suck up memory?

he loop ran through very quickly. To get better statistics, I added a program like you describe after each compilation. This has the effect of forcing the (presumably damaged) gcc executable out of the memory buffer and a reload of a fresh copy from disk, so the loop could continue. BTW, can someon

lsof problem

/System.map-2.0.27 and the booted kernel are a matched set, they were both created by one invocation of make-kpkg. What went wrong? I have lsof 3.65-5 and kernel-package 3.19 installed, with dpkg-gencontrol patched as described by Manoj Srivastava in his message of 12 Feb 1997. -- Klaus Wacker