From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Kernel panic when allocating a huge memory
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 12:33:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5cff355142bfe83410dce1c3fc321f25@kw.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121103163103.GA48522@intma.in>
On Sat Nov 3 12:32:38 EDT 2012, khm-9@intma.in wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 11:40:05AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> >
> > does plan 9 run on any ultrabooks natively? swapping within a vm?
> > my head hurts to think of it.
> >
>
> Your head hurts to think that sometimes extra memory is needed? On the
> VMs I host for people, I partition 256 MB of memory. This is not enough
> to compile python, so you turn on swap before mk, then turn it off again
> when you're done. Or not. I'm not a cop.
>
> Either way, nobody has died yet, or even complained about headaches.
usually the vm does paging itself, and often more complicated things like
memory compression and deduplication. so why would the hosted os page as well?
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-03 16:33 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
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 [this message]
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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