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From: "John Floren" <slawmaster@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] install "out of physical memory"
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:40:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7d3530220609171340m1b6b156erd138325867d4b2b7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a0609171333t228a677eh39d1db121c39ab21@mail.gmail.com>

On 9/17/06, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> > my boot looks like this...
> > 24M memory: 11M kernel data, 12M user, 77M swap
> > kfs....version....time
>
> This is the problem -- the kernel only detected 24M of memory.
> Not sure why.
>
> Russ
>

On a similar note, does the kernel automatically detect and use swap
space upon boot? I just went back and resized my fossil partition to
add swap (in case I managed to fill my memory somehow); do I need to
have a line in cpurc to turn on swap for that partition, or is it
automagic?
Thanks

John F.
-- 
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" -- Shakespeare, Henry VI


  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-17 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-17 14:06 chuckf
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 [this message]
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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