On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Bela Valek wrote:
> 2010/3/12 erik quanstrom :
> >> How do other operating systems detect the available RAM? Could Plan 9
> >> use the same method?
> >
> > plan 9 uses the same methods for detecting ram
> > everyone else does. perhaps we trust bios too much,
> >
> I had this error on VMWare recently. The solution was to disable Venti and
> just use fossil. Venti is of questionable value when I'm already
> snapshotting my host's filesystem anyway.
won't help. his situation is dire. only 8mb of memory
seen.
- erik
2010/3/12 erik quanstrom :
>> How do other operating systems detect the available RAM? Could Plan 9
>> use the same method?
>
> plan 9 uses the same methods for detecting ram
> everyone else does. perhaps we trust bios too much,
> but 8mb isn't impossible, either.
>
> try
> a *noe820scan=1
