[NTLUG:Discuss] Homemade machine locking up at swap

[gin]

Oops, sorry:

I was running the latest Slackware (which I picked up the the NTLUG meeting 
on qmail - kernel 2.2.13 I think), but I also installed Red Hat 6.1 (and 
6.0 b/c 6.1 locked smack in the middle of the installation presumably b/c 
of the same problem) to see if there was any difference. The same problem 
occurred on both.

My partitioning is as follows:

The following are primary paritions
/dev/hda1 (1024M)       System (from cylinder 1 to whatever is +1024 MB)
/dev/hda2 (+127M)       Here's my swap (out of the 1024 I guess - is that 
perhaps the problem?)

The following are extended partitions
/dev/hda5 (+4 Gig)      /home
/dev/hda6 (+4 Gig)      /var/db
/dev/hda7 (+Remainder)  /var/files (Samba)


At 08:40 AM 2/8/00 -0600, you wrote:
>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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