From: STEPHEN GRIESE <griesefamily@peoplepc.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Out of Memory in Standalone Install
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 04:25:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010803112506.21532.cpmta@c002.snv.cp.net> (raw)
Hi All,
I am attempting to install the distribution on a 586 machine with 32M of RAM. I boot off the install floppy and I have the distribution in the CD drive. I get to the point where the install script begins to unpack the distribution and I get a "no physical memory" error.
I had thought 32M was enough memory for a standalone install, so I begin again and look at the stats window. Even a the very beginning of the install process, about 75% of my memory is already used up!
So I open another window and do a ps, and this is what I see:
glenda 1 0:00 0:00 64K Wait init
glenda 2 0:30 0:00 0K kproc genrandom
glenda 3 0:00 0:00 0K kproc alarm
glenda 8 0:01 0:00 3676K Read kfs
glenda 12 0:00 0:00 3636K Read kfs
glenda 13 0:00 0:00 0K Idle pager
glenda 14 0:00 0:00 116K Wait rc
glenda 15 0:00 0:00 124K Wait cpurc
glenda 19 0:00 0:00 0K kproc floppy
glenda 33 0:00 0:00 480K Read9p dossrv
glenda 62 0:00 0:00 780K Wait rio
glenda 63 0:00 0:01 780K Rendez rio
glenda 64 0:00 0:00 780K Read rio
glenda 65 0:00 0:00 780K Read rio
glenda 66 0:00 0:00 780K Rendez rio
glenda 67 0:00 0:00 780K Read rio
glenda 68 0:00 0:00 780K Read rio
glenda 86 0:00 0:00 148K Sleep stats
glenda 94 0:00 0:00 20K Read tailfsrv
glenda 103 0:00 0:00 184K Wait mainloop
glenda 115 0:00 0:00 140K Read stats
glenda 116 0:00 0:01 148K Read stats
glenda 125 0:00 0:00 204K Read main
glenda 330 0:00 0:00 36K Read read
glenda 332 0:00 0:00 780K Wait rio
glenda 333 0:00 0:00 116K Wait rc
glenda 337 0:00 0:00 48K Read ps
So my question is: Should I be able to do a standalone installation on a machine with 32M of memory?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Stephen Griese
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