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From: Christopher.Vance@adfa.oz.au Christopher.Vance@adfa.oz.au
Subject: Can't mk 9pc
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 01:34:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19951220063452.B62Yd-eDb2IV7oQYo4g55SCfFrmhgtCBoB-My5p1evg@z> (raw)

"Luther Huffman, Jr." <lutherh@mail.infinet.com> wrote:
|  I've been trying to apply the latest updates (816407398) to 
|  /sys/src/9/pc and I've run into a problem. 
|     The extraction and creation of the updated files goes smoothly. 
|  When I use "mk" on the patched source, the compilation goes off 
|  without a hitch. During linking, however, Plan 9 gives up the ghost 
|  and gives me the message "Out of memory". My Pentium PC has 16 MB of
|  RAM. Shouldn't that be enough to link 9pc?

I've been linking kernels on a 486DX2/66 with 8M.  It only worked when I 
started swapping onto a u9fs server.  The largest process size I saw was 
about 12M for 8l.  My links took about an hour each.

-- Christopher






             reply	other threads:[~1995-12-20  6:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1995-12-20  6:34 Christopher.Vance [this message]
1995-12-20 10:45 Luther
1995-12-20 12:27 Nigel
1995-12-20 12:28 Nigel
1995-12-20 14:17 steve
1995-12-20 14:21 Nigel
1995-12-20 18:19 Luther

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