i run 9vx occasionally. a while back i built 9vx from ron's repository. i was having problems with it under Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64, where sometimes both cores were pegged at 100%; it was a problem with linux (judging by ubuntu mailing lists). without changing 9vx, things got stable after 10.10 (currently on 11.10). so, when in doubt, suspect the host os.
% ls -l `{whatis 9vx}--rwxr-xr-x M 0 root root 5409005 Apr 9 2011 /usr/local/bin/9vx% uname -aLinux hpamd 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:56:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -Skip On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Jens Staal <staal1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/21/11 18:09, Anton wrote: >> >> > If you're on linux, you should consider kvm + kvmtool + plan 9 >> AFAIK, kvmtool wasn't integrated into 3.1. Is it stable/mature enough to >> run plan 9? >> >> > i have to say my experience is quite different >> Hm, that's odd. 9vx runs ok in ubuntu in tinycore, but not in arch. Maybe >> the thing is in Arch's kernel config or patches (although, stock kernel is >> quite vanilla...)? >> Are there Arch users to confirm? > > I have not had any problems, but I run the 9vx-hg package (could be a vx32 > version difference?). The freezing behaviour seems very strange - something > with the WM? I run dwm now and KDE before and did not experience any freezes > due to vx32 in either. The only crashes I have experienced have been some > experimental compiles (never succeeded under 9vx) using the Plan9 port of > GCC 3.0, but those crashes were quite graceful and did not bother the rest > of my system. > > >