Ng Pheng Siong wrote on Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 01:35:33PM +0800: > > So far, the virtual server providers I've found use jail, mainly because > jail comes as part of FreeBSD but VMware is commercial software and > unsupported on FreeBSD.
Unsupported yes, but it works just fine for me. > > > CMUCL doesn't _really_ allocate huge amounts of memory at startup: it > > is only reserving a large amount of memory for possible future use. So > > its "virtual size" is very large, but only around 17MB are resident > > initially. You can reduce the virtual size by using the > > -dynamic-space-size commandline option (try with 100 for example), and > > by building a "small" core. > > Yup, I collected some numbers with top and these agree with you. So did you try the -dynamic-space-size option? All the other spaces in CMUCL are also drastically oversized by default as well. I run them all at the bare minimum just fine. > Essentially, in a virtual server environment, the resource limits are such > that CMUCL can't even start and my provider-to-be is unable to play the > tuning game with me. Are you sure you are facing resource limit issues and not mmap'ing into space not mmap'able? Martin
