From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <140e7ec30807220850w14b50e39y8771c7a17de88b73@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:50:32 +0800 From: sqweek To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <04097ce2aec06396066c8a63d00fe39b@terzarima.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4885F301.9010105@gmx.de> <04097ce2aec06396066c8a63d00fe39b@terzarima.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] sad commentary Topicbox-Message-UUID: ed5f370e-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Charles Forsyth wrote: >> no adding very large amounts of code... maybe fix the swap... or even >> remove it alltogether. > > assuming it doesn't work now, the paging code used to work, at least > in the sense of survive --i used 8l to link kernels on a 4mbyte 386sx16 -- > so i imagine it's just a matter of repairing it, if it indeed is responsible. > unfortunately it's hard to tell because "doesn't work" is a little vague. I'm still happy to do any testing here. Have a P100 with 24mb ram that I can reliably bring down with man -p or as I found out yesterday, cd /sys/man; mk indices. Symptoms of the swap issue were the drawterm session locking up... can't remember what was on the console. -sqweek