From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4BAF6906.4030008@magma.com.ni> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:34:46 +0200 From: Georg Lehner User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <13426df11003161029v7fb35a3ft51d0e64af29aca72@mail.gmail.com> <13426df11003161119s285173f0tc4d5004554e1185d@mail.gmail.com> <13426df11003161604t20c78a8btb4dc38bde0245c4e@mail.gmail.com> <4B6561F9-9D86-4B83-8ABE-13D00DABDABB@gmail.com> <13426df11003161652k2f30609bod15be880af2ee26@mail.gmail.com> <13426df11003161722h4f270210n54d79553cde72112@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <13426df11003161722h4f270210n54d79553cde72112@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting qemu problem Topicbox-Message-UUID: f6cefcf0-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ron minnich wrote: > [..] > I don't see why venti has gotten so memory hungry, this seems new > behavior. I realize I can twist the knobs myself but geez, this is a 4 > GB disk -- why does it think it needs nearly 400 MB RSS to deal with > it? > > ron Please note that quite a lot of installation problems mentioned recently on the mailing list have been related to venti beeing very memory hungry. Without beeing able to contribute technically to a solution i propose to mitigate it by adding support for setting up venti parameters in the installation scripts, or by setting safe values by default and leave performance tweeking to the experienced. Regards, Jorge-Le�n