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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:06:38 +0200
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Subject: [9fans] install  "out of physical memory"
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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.