[gentoo-user] system lockup when compiling gcc

[Aaron Walker]

I've been using Gentoo for about a month now (both as my mail server and 
as my desktop OS) and I absolutely love it. I haven't had a single REAL 
problem... (that wasnt obviously fixable, of course) until now. 
Yesterday, I did a 'emerge -u world' on both the Gentoo boxes. 
Unfortunately, my mail server (a P233 w/96M RAM and 2x7GB hard drives) 
wasn't able to finish.  It went fine through all the packages until it 
got to gcc.  I was monitoring the sys stats of my mail server on my main 
box with ssh->top (its a headless/keyboardless box), and as expected it 
was using about 95% cpu.  Everything was getting REALLY sluggish in my 
mail client until it finally became non-responsive.  I can ping it, but 
I can't ssh into it.  I plugged in a monitor & keyboard and all i could 
was switch virtual consoles.  CTR-ALT-DELETE wouldn't even work.  So I 
rebooted and tried again running 'nice -n 15 emerge -u world' mainly so 
I could still read my mail and let it compile at the same time.  I came 
home from work this morning to find it locked up again.  I can't see why 
this P233 could install gentoo from stage1 for 4 straight days and not 
lock up, but then do  it now?

Any suggestions?

Sorry for such a long post.

Thanks,
Aaron
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