From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7d3530220607111746m205e6635ydedb448873671700@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:46:38 -0700 From: "John Floren" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: Re: Re: [9fans] system crash during compile In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60607111546v6b8a81e9ha466d8c7c344275e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <7d3530220607090901h24130f23tcf35bc054bb6534f@mail.gmail.com> <7d3530220607091441r4a36f913k9367ad431be04c0b@mail.gmail.com> <7d3530220607102205m83135a6x3b3c7708a646c81e@mail.gmail.com> <14ec7b180607102221r1b211466j9f72eca4a100802c@mail.gmail.com> <7d3530220607110815p4a4b49dci9e19effe5612067c@mail.gmail.com> <8ccc8ba40607111141q26d2c319if09ba79e217d1924@mail.gmail.com> <3e1162e60607111546v6b8a81e9ha466d8c7c344275e@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7cf12650-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 7/11/06, David Leimbach wrote: > On 7/11/06, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > > You said your stats for memory usage did remain low. Was this the case? > > Couldn=B4t it be running out of the % of memory used by the kernel? > > You could try increasing kernelpcent if that was the case. > > Do the RAM dimms pass a memory test? Memory errors are fun... I had > good DIMMs once and a bad slot, took about 1 year till I finally tried > that out and got back to 1GB on my PC. > > Haven't turned that machine on much since I got my intel mac with > Parallels though. (especially since Plan 9 is working so nicely on it > now) > > Dave I'm pretty sure the memory is okay. Francisco Ballesteros seems to have misunderstood me, or perhaps I wrote poorly; my RAM usage goes to 100%. *Swap* usage stays low the whole time, though. There's only one DIMM in the computer, and it seems to be working okay. John --=20 TANSTAAFL! (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch!)