Re: Hurd on old computers

2001-06-01 Thread Chris Baird
I was playing around with vmstat a while back, and think this discussion finally gives me an excuse to post the measurements. :) For my system running Debian GNU/Hurd (gnumach+hurd 2301 CVS), with no additional daemons or much else out of the ordinary, the memory usage looked like:

Re: Hurd on old computers

2001-06-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 09:51:41AM +0800, Jonathan Hunt wrote: Hi, Interesting... so that's explains why I couldn't get it to boot. I hate to ask but any ideas on how this compares to linux Yes, it is exactly the same problem: Software gets bigger and hungrier and doesn't boot on old

Re: Hurd on old computers

2001-05-31 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 06:37:35PM +0800, Jonathan Hunt wrote: (default pager): dropping data request because of previous paging errors memory_object_data_request (0x0, 0x0, 0xfc000, 0x1000, 0x1) failed 268435459 memory_object_data_request (0x0, 0x0, 0x31000, 0x1000, 0x1) failed 268435459

Re: Hurd on old computers

2001-05-31 Thread Jonathan Hunt
On Thursday 31 May 2001 16:16, you wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 06:37:35PM +0800, Jonathan Hunt wrote: (default pager): dropping data request because of previous paging errors memory_object_data_request (0x0, 0x0, 0xfc000, 0x1000, 0x1) failed 268435459 memory_object_data_request (0x0,

Re: Hurd on old computers

2001-05-31 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:15:09AM +0800, Jonathan Hunt wrote: I am booting on a machine with 8 Meg of virtual memory. Does booting single-user hurd actually require that much memory? Why? I mean isn't that a little on the high side? Premature optimization is the root of all evil. -