From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9vx mk install chokes on gs
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:19:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTim-WLMoYqRKtKgsEBq1VPJMAtOamedB=8BvXYem@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6dc83bc76090e982543b4f10231530ec@brasstown.quanstro.net>
>> another reason for the low size was so that it was easier
>> to keep multiple processes mapped at the same time,
>> to reduce context switch latency.
>
> that makes sense. unfortunately, this means that any
> process that uses significant memory on plan 9 needs
> to be re-checked for 9vx. even 100mb is tiny.
it's easy to recompile. the current limit seems to
work very well for people, as this is the first
complaint in two years. there are still people
running plan 9 on 64 MB or 128 MB machines.
(and actually i thought the 9vx limit was 256 MB;
maybe ron cranked it down.)
russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-12 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-11 23:07 ron minnich
2010-09-11 23:15 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-09-11 23:35 ` Robert Ransom
2010-09-12 0:39 ` ron minnich
2010-09-12 0:49 ` ron minnich
2010-09-12 1:02 ` erik quanstrom
2010-09-12 2:25 ` ron minnich
2010-09-12 2:32 ` ron minnich
2010-09-12 3:44 ` ron minnich
2010-09-12 4:59 ` erik quanstrom
2010-09-12 6:27 ` ron minnich
2010-09-12 15:44 ` Russ Cox
2010-09-12 16:48 ` erik quanstrom
2010-09-12 18:19 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2010-09-12 19:13 ` ron minnich
2010-09-12 19:33 ` ron minnich
2010-09-12 20:09 ` yy
2010-09-14 20:38 ` yy
2010-09-12 17:12 ` ron minnich
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