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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: pavel.klinkovsky@gmail.com, 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Kernel panic when compiling Go on native Plan 9
Date: Fri,  2 Nov 2012 10:00:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <28d5b94e81a770e9521a1b80366b8892@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f28bb47b-f2e9-431d-9094-01d2980a6d59@r10g2000vby.googlegroups.com>

On Fri Nov  2 09:44:43 EDT 2012, pavel.klinkovsky@gmail.com wrote:
> > How much memory does your system have?
>
> - 512 MB RAM
> - 512 MB swap
>
> > Changeset 14739 grew the Unicode collation tables
> > in the exp/locale/collate package by a considerable
> > amount. The compiler's memory usage now goes above
> > 400 MB when building that package, almost 2.5x the
> > amount used to compile the second heavyweight and
> > 15x the average.
>
> I see.
> I can confirm when the kernel panic occured I saw (in stats):
> - full RAM
> - small portion of swap occupied

i might give the 9front kernel a go.  i think that cinap spent
some time trying to make swap work a little bit.

i'd wonder though if there were some way to cut down the module
so it doesn't take quite so much memory.  even halving it would
mean you could ditch swap.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-02 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-02  9:50 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 [this message]
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
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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