Hi there,

I have a slackware server Slackware 12.1.0 running under my vmware vsphere infrastructure.
The kernel version is uname -r >> 2.6.24.5-smp and uname -a >> 2.6.24.5-smp #2 SMP Wed Apr 30 13:41:38 CDT 2008 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5640 @ 2.27GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux.

I have allocated 32 Gig's of memory to this server under vmware vcenter but the server only has 3 Gig's allocated to it when I view it with the top command.

Below is the top command output:

top - 11:49:49 up 29 days, 22:06, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 174 total, 1 running, 173 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%s
Mem: 3102632k total, 2975352k used, 127280k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 31254448k total, 2528k used, 31251920k free, 2854164k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
7170 root 20 0 2396 2316 116 S 0 0.1 29:14.16 requester
1 root 20 0 772 324 284 S 0 0.0 0:38.62 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.16 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 1:47.81 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.16 migration/1

If you see the output the server is only using 3 Gig's, I decided to recompile the kernel and so that it can use all the available memory that has been allocated to it.

I did the following:

cd /usr/src/linux
cp .conf .conf.org
make menuconfig

Then when I execute the make menuconfig command, I get the following error:

root@server1:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/inputbox.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/textbox.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/yesno.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.o
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
In file included from scripts/kconfig/symbol.c:9,
from scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c:2477:
/usr/include/regex.h:145: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 're_void'
/usr/include/regex.h:315: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '_ANSI_ARGS_'
/usr/include/regex.h:324: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '_ANSI_ARGS_'
/usr/include/regex.h:326: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'TclReFree'
/usr/include/regex.h:327: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '_ANSI_ARGS_'
In file included from scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c:2477:
scripts/kconfig/symbol.c: In function 'sym_re_search':
scripts/kconfig/symbol.c:730: warning: implicit declaration of function 'regcomp'
scripts/kconfig/symbol.c:736: warning: implicit declaration of function 'regexec'
scripts/kconfig/symbol.c:751: warning: implicit declaration of function 'TclReFree'
make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o] Error 1
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2

Has any one ever came accross this error on
Slackware or can any guru on Slackware kindly assist me in resolving this issue or to get my system to see all the memory allocated by providing me the steps.

Regards
Linux Duke

Have you installed glibc package (not glibc-solibs) and tcl package ?

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Yes I have installed the two packages.

This is what is installed that has glibc:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1396 2011-12-08 14:41 glib-1.2.10-i486-3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21316 2011-12-08 14:41 glib2-2.14.6-i486-4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 304125 2011-12-08 14:42 glibc-2.7-i486-10
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 218430 2011-12-08 14:42 glibc-i18n-2.7-noarch-10
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1022 2011-12-08 14:42 glibc-profile-2.7-i486-10
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7706 2011-12-08 14:38 glibc-solibs-2.7-i486-10
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 67429 2011-12-08 14:38 glibc-zoneinfo-2.7-noarch-10

This is what is installed for the tcl stuff:

drwxr-xr-x 10 15399 19249 4096 2008-02-06 17:38 tcl8.4.18/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2919787 2012-01-04 10:32 tcl8.4.18-src.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x 8 cms 1000 4096 2012-01-05 11:14 tcllib-1.11.1/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4014817 2012-01-05 11:13 tcllib-1.11.1.tar.gz

Thanks

Where did you get the tcl8.4.18 package, the package name seems not correct
(should have been tcl-8.4.18)
Also it seems this package has overwritten the glibc /usr/include/regex.h file somewhat :/

I would download and install tcl package:
http://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub...slackware/tcl/

And also reinstall glibc:
http://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub...1/slackware/l/

Hi Cedrik,

I will download and install the tcl and glibc then provide feed back once I'm finished.

Regards

Cedrik just to be sure as my back ground is Redhat not Slackware.
These are the two packages tcl-8.4.18-i486-1.tgz and glibc-2.7-i486-10.tgz that I need to install.
Also after installing them should I try to run the make menuconfig command to see if it's working.

Regards
Gugu

---------- Post added 02-09-12 at 02:02 PM ----------

Cedrik just to be sure as my back ground is Redhat not Slackware.
These are the two packages tcl-8.4.18-i486-1.tgz and glibc-2.7-i486-10.tgz that I need to install.
Also after installing them should I try to run the make menuconfig command to see if it's working.

Regards
Gugu

Hi Cedrik,

I have installed the packages on my servre output below:

root@server1:/tmp/install# cat /root/packagelist.txt | grep tcl-8.4.18-i486
tcl-8.4.18-i486-1
root@server1:/tmp/install# cat /root/packagelist.txt | grep glibc-2.7-i486
glibc-2.7-i486-10
root@vrbkcms3:/tmp/install#

Should I now test is menuconfig works?

Regards
Duke

Yes, you can test menuconfig

You installed packages with installpkg command ?

I tested menuconfig after the install.

Thanks a lot Cedri, its working 100% now.

Regards
Linux Duke

Bit of an aside, but why do you allocate 32G of RAM to a 32 bit OS? It can only use 4(or 3?) of those.

Developers want to see 32Gig's and thier code is old and only works on 32bit not 64bit.

You mean 32GB of virtual memory (swap), no ? If yes, no need to recompile, swap size was already 32GB (see top output in first post)