Can't mk 9pc

Can't mk 9pc

[Christopher.Vance]

"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

Can't mk 9pc

[Luther]

On 20 Dec 95 at 7:27, Nigel Roles wisely noted:
 
> 16Mb is not enough on it's own, since 8l can take 14Mb (well it is
> optimised for a well endowed shared compute server). You would need
> 24Mb to link without swapping. The "Out of memory" message is the
> result of not having a swap partition selected, so check that out.

Hmmm. I know that if I formatted my hard disk with disk/prep -a that 
I would have a default swap partition. Somebody please tell me that 
the standard CD-ROM installation procedure created the swap partition 
for me and all I have to do is give it a name for the "swap" command. 
If someone can't tell me this, please lie to me.

Can't mk 9pc

[Nigel]

> 
> Hmmm. I know that if I formatted my hard disk with disk/prep -a that 
> I would have a default swap partition. Somebody please tell me that 
> the standard CD-ROM installation procedure created the swap partition 
> for me and all I have to do is give it a name for the "swap" command. 
> If someone can't tell me this, please lie to me.
> 

swap /dev/hd0swap or equivalent.

ls /dev will reveal its existence or otherwise.

Would I lie to you?
 

Can't mk 9pc

[steve]

"Luther Huffman, Jr." <lutherh@mail.infinet.com> asked Santa:
> Hmmm. I know that if I formatted my hard disk with disk/prep -a that 
> I would have a default swap partition. Somebody please tell me that 
> the standard CD-ROM installation procedure created the swap partition 
> for me and all I have to do is give it a name for the "swap" command. 
> If someone can't tell me this, please lie to me.

Yes, there should be a swap partition already. If your boot disk is
/dev/sd0 (scsi), and you "bind -a '#w0' /dev", then "lc /dev" will
show you all the partitions. Use "swap /dev/sd0swap" to enable the swap area.
If your boot disk is IDE, use '#H' for the bind, & /dev/hd0swap

fyi, 'prep -a' allocates up to 20% of the plan9 area of the disk or
2*memsize, whichever is less, for swap.

Can't mk 9pc

[Nigel]

> 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?
>    Any ideas?
> 

16Mb is not enough on it's own, since 8l can take 14Mb (well it is
optimised for a well endowed shared compute server). You would need 
24Mb to link without swapping. The "Out of memory" message is the 
result of not having a swap partition selected, so check that out.

Can't mk 9pc

[Nigel]

> 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?
>    Any ideas?
> 

16Mb is not enough on it's own, since 8l can take 14Mb (well it is
optimised for a well endowed shared compute server). You would need 
24Mb to link without swapping. The "Out of memory" message is the 
result of not having a swap partition selected, so check that out.

Can't mk 9pc

[Luther]

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?
   Any ideas?