Re: [9fans] out of physical memory; no swap configured

2010-03-19 Thread Bela Valek
2010/3/12 erik quanstrom quans...@labs.coraid.com: 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

Re: [9fans] out of physical memory; no swap configured

2010-03-19 Thread erik quanstrom
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

Re: [9fans] out of physical memory; no swap configured

2010-03-19 Thread David Leimbach
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Bela Valek bval...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/3/12 erik quanstrom quans...@labs.coraid.com: 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

Re: [9fans] out of physical memory; no swap configured

2010-03-01 Thread Georg Lehner
Hello! When you are done setting up the system do not reboot right away, rather reconfigure venti (via venti/conf) with small enough memory settings. Then you can restart safely. Regards, Jorge-León Bela Valek wrote: Hi, I used Erik's 9atoms.iso to install Plan 9. When its booting,

[9fans] out of physical memory; no swap configured

2010-02-27 Thread Bela Valek
Hi, I used Erik's 9atoms.iso to install Plan 9. When its booting, after its asking for root partition and username, I get the error message repeated: out of physical memory; no swap configured. Why, oh why? I use fossil without venti, on a 2GB partition, the RAM is also 2 GB. I found the

Re: [9fans] out of physical memory; no swap configured

2010-02-27 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat Feb 27 06:49:47 EST 2010, bval...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I used Erik's 9atoms.iso to install Plan 9. When its booting, after its asking for root partition and username, I get the error message repeated: out of physical memory; no swap configured. Why, oh why? memory scan went sideways