>> I tried setting mem, bcmem, and icmem all to 1M but no improvement.
>> They are not set by default, and trying the configuration shown in the
>> man page actually prevents the system from booting (out of memory).
>>
>> John
>
> perhaps i'm pointing out the obvious. have you tried something as
> I tried setting mem, bcmem, and icmem all to 1M but no improvement.
> They are not set by default, and trying the configuration shown in the
> man page actually prevents the system from booting (out of memory).
>
> John
perhaps i'm pointing out the obvious. have you tried something as simple
a
> I've just installed Plan 9 on a new terminal that will soon become my
> new auth/cpu/file server. It's a [EMAIL PROTECTED], 128MB of RAM, and a 500GB
> hard drive. I made a 10GB fossil and gave the rest to venti. When I
> boot, I find that pretty much all of the 128 megs is being used, and
> o
>> Besides the obvious "buy more RAM", do you guys
>> have any suggestions for reducing memory use? I have run Plan 9 on
>> machines with 32 MB in the last few years so I presume this must have
>> something to do with the size of the file systems--correct?
>
> venti(8) has a very good discussion
Besides the obvious "buy more RAM", do you guys
have any suggestions for reducing memory use? I have run Plan 9 on
machines with 32 MB in the last few years so I presume this must have
something to do with the size of the file systems--correct?
venti(8) has a very good discussion of memory usa
> and of course since swap doesn't work I didn't even bother to make a
> partition for it.
i don't think i'd go as far as that for a cpu server, or even a terminal.
(paging over the net is tedious, but better than shutting things down
on overload.) file servers should be configured not to page (t
I've just installed Plan 9 on a new terminal that will soon become my
new auth/cpu/file server. It's a [EMAIL PROTECTED], 128MB of RAM, and a 500GB
hard drive. I made a 10GB fossil and gave the rest to venti. When I
boot, I find that pretty much all of the 128 megs is being used, and
of course s
