From: chuckf@arcor.de
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Cc: kruhft@gmail.com
Subject: [9fans] install "out of physical memory"
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:06:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6104977.1158501998226.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail12> (raw)
Hallo,
I read this in the archives regarding the Compaq. I"m having the same
problem with physical memory. I don"t quite understand how you overcame it.
Can you explain in more detail? Do i copy another program to the floppy..like
"9pccd.gz" Does it contain a different swap routine? Do I need a utility program?
I tried "swapon" and named a linuxswap portion... didn't help.
........from archives 2005 July......
The major installation problem was that the system was constantly
running out of physical memory during the distmount phase. After a
bunch of hunting and exploration, it looked like the kernel was only
reporting about 3k free pages of free physical memory, with about 16k
pages of swap (approx numbers).
I managed to get the plan9 partion 'preped' with a swap, so after
copying the swap utility from the plan9 boot image (9pccd.gz) to a
shared ext2 partition i was able to use it from the plan9 install image
(9pcflop.gz) and fire up the swap file so I could sucessfully perform
the install.
Everything went smoothly with the install after that and I'm now
booting plan9 from the harddrive using grub. :)
After this experience, I have a feeling that either there's a bug in my
comp's mainboard which causes problems with the physical memory
calculation or (since I don't know much about the kernel yet) it has a
hardcoded max somewhere that is limiting my available memory. Any
comments on this problem or suggestions on how to fix it?
And finally, I would suggest to the iso maintainers that they put the
swap utility in the 9pcflop.gz image and some instructions in the
installation/installer to enable the swap file when it's created so
others don't have this kind of problem.
next reply other threads:[~2006-09-17 14:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-17 14:06 chuckf [this message]
2006-09-17 18:31 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-17 19:13 ` Chuck Foreman
2006-09-17 19:22 ` Russ Cox
[not found] ` <ee9e417a0609171222v1163c0d5k49987948781fc714@mail.gmail.co m>
2006-09-17 20:05 ` Chuck Foreman
2006-09-17 20:33 ` Russ Cox
2006-09-17 20:40 ` John Floren
2006-09-17 21:01 ` geoff
2006-09-17 21:03 ` John Floren
2006-09-17 21:23 ` geoff
2006-09-17 21:10 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-09-17 21:18 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-17 21:20 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-09-17 23:32 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-18 1:20 ` geoff
[not found] ` <ee9e417a0609171333t228a677eh39d1db121c39ab21@mail.gmail.co m>
2006-09-17 22:35 ` Chuck Foreman
2006-09-18 3:34 ` Burton Samograd
[not found] ` <7155ede00609172034w1d7ee768paff34c7577d6178a@mail.gmail.co m>
2006-09-18 18:28 ` Chuck Foreman
2006-09-17 19:23 Chuck Foreman
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