> On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Jim Ford wrote:
>
> > I've just ordered a scanner and decided in the meantime to install the
> > software. I grabbed the latest Sane package (0.72) and have tried
> > compiling it. It first ate my 64 meg of ram and then when that ran out,
> > started snacking on my swap partition. When _that_ ran out, it burped
> > and announced "virtual memory exhausted" (in line 3686 of compiling
> > umax.c)!
>
> The output of "free", "vmstat", and/or "procinfo" during this process
> would be helpful. These would help narrow down what process is eating
> the memory, at least.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 ray.ingles@fanucrobotics.com
>
> Two rules for success in life:
> 1. Don't tell people everything you know.
>
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Hi Jim, If you turn down the optimization when you compile under Slackware
ie <CFLAGS-g01 ./configure> . It appears to compile OK.
This was thanks to Paul Legato.
Cheers,
Peter Hall
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