From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Kernel panic when allocating a huge memory
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 14:52:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <27cf5a3b30f5230922f3a1a0160e5c55@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL4LZyix75wKezSUBAKH1SAUXFqcpHMgiYqJkVc+q4YXMb6cTw@mail.gmail.com>
> Swap has been broken since at least 2005 (my first experiments with
> Plan 9). Once I stopped trying to compile ghostscript on a 32 MB
> laptop, I never really had problems with the lack... hell, I did my
> master's work and most of my personal computing on a laptop with only
> 1 GB of RAM and no swap for most of 2010, only ran into problems when
> aptitude decided to calculate a multi-gig dependency graph.
>
> Swapping is so painful, please consider buying more RAM. It may be
> simple to fix the swap code, if you're inclined to do some kernel
> hacking, because the kernel in general is pleasant to work with.
if you're looking to the future and thinking of dealing with multiple
page sizes, the current swap is going to need rewriting from scratch.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-02 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-02 9:50 [9fans] Kernel panic when compiling Go on native Plan 9 Pavel Klinkovsky
2012-11-02 10:56 ` Pavel Klinkovsky
2012-11-02 11:59 ` Richard Miller
2012-11-02 13:04 ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-02 12:19 ` Anthony Martin
2012-11-02 13:39 ` Pavel Klinkovsky
2012-11-02 13:51 ` Richard Miller
2012-11-02 13:57 ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-02 15:25 ` Richard Miller
2012-11-02 16:42 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-11-02 14:16 ` Pavel Klinkovsky
2012-11-02 13:39 ` Pavel Klinkovsky
2012-11-02 14:00 ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-02 14:39 ` Anthony Martin
2012-11-02 15:13 ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-02 16:44 ` steve
2012-11-02 15:21 ` Pavel Klinkovsky
2012-11-02 16:03 ` Pavel Klinkovsky
2012-11-02 17:07 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2012-11-02 17:09 ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-02 16:19 ` [9fans] Kernel panic when allocating a huge memory Pavel Klinkovsky
2012-11-02 16:29 ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-02 17:36 ` Pavel Klinkovsky
2012-11-02 18:36 ` John Floren
2012-11-02 18:52 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2012-11-02 19:09 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2012-11-02 19:18 ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-02 20:28 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-03 5:43 ` pmarin
2012-11-03 6:53 ` steve
2012-11-03 6:56 ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-03 9:16 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-03 10:02 ` lucio
2012-11-03 15:40 ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-03 15:50 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-03 16:31 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-11-03 16:33 ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-03 16:46 ` hiro
2012-11-03 16:51 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-11-03 17:04 ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-03 17:13 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-11-03 17:22 ` Dan Cross
2012-11-03 17:28 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-11-03 17:38 ` hiro
2012-11-03 21:29 ` Steve Simon
2012-11-03 17:40 ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-03 17:45 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-11-03 17:57 ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-03 18:06 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-11-03 18:48 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-04 14:02 ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-04 14:18 ` hiro
2012-11-04 14:58 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-04 18:57 ` Bakul Shah
2012-11-04 14:54 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-04 16:14 ` Martin Harriss
2012-11-04 16:18 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-04 16:27 ` tlaronde
2012-11-04 19:17 ` tlaronde
2012-11-03 21:15 ` hiro
2012-11-03 16:55 ` balaji
2012-11-03 17:05 ` Matthew Veety
2012-11-02 17:42 ` [9fans] Kernel panic when compiling Go on native Plan 9 Pavel Klinkovsky
2012-11-05 13:33 ` [9fans] Kernel panic when allocating a huge memory Pavel Klinkovsky
2012-11-05 13:50 ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-05 15:56 ` Pavel Klinkovsky
2012-11-05 13:51 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-11-05 15:56 ` Pavel Klinkovsky
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