From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7d3530220607110815p4a4b49dci9e19effe5612067c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:15:20 -0700 From: "John Floren" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] system crash during compile In-Reply-To: <14ec7b180607102221r1b211466j9f72eca4a100802c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7d3530220607090901h24130f23tcf35bc054bb6534f@mail.gmail.com> <7d3530220607091441r4a36f913k9367ad431be04c0b@mail.gmail.com> <7d3530220607102205m83135a6x3b3c7708a646c81e@mail.gmail.com> <14ec7b180607102221r1b211466j9f72eca4a100802c@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7c6073b2-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 7/10/06, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > On 7/10/06, John Floren wrote: > > So far, nobody can shed any light on the problem? Bugger. > > didn't russ? > > anyway, you haven't told us what architecture you have, how much ram, > how much hard disk space available and what time of day you're running > the command at (don't ask, sometimes it matters)... back in the day > ghostscript linking would panic a machine with no swap turned on and > only 64MB of ram, but those days are long gone, right? > > right?!? i mean, i haven't had a need for a swap device since 2002! > what is that beastly node on which you must have a kernel compiled, > and why can't you just run plan9 in qemu on your main machine? > Okay, the node is an IBM machine, Pentium 2 processor @ ~300 Mhz, 64 MB of RAM, ~3 GB of hard drive space. I have a fossil+venti configuration set up; exact numbers, I can't tell you, because I'm currently 200 miles away from the damn thing. I've tried running the command at various times of day. I can't run Plan 9 in qemu on my main machine because my main machine is somewhere in Ohio at the moment (I think) and I won't have access until fall. Besides, it just isn't the same when you're emulating it ;-) John -- TANSTAAFL! (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch!)