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From: STEPHEN GRIESE <griesefamily@peoplepc.com>
Subject: [9fans] Out of Memory in Standalone Install
Date: Fri,  3 Aug 2001 04:25:06 -0700
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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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