[NTLUG:Discuss] Homemade machine locking up at swap

[Alex D. Coker]

How's the 20GB partitioned? I don't have experience with an IDE that large,
but it seems that the swap partition should be within the 1024, unless it's on
an extended partition.

gin wrote:

> 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?
>
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