Re: : Running out of RAM -- for the archives

2007-07-09 Thread Raimo Niskanen
I had OpenBSD running on an old HP OmniBook 7150 with 64M RAM, and it worked sort of fine. The snag was that if I booted, then started X (yes, it did start), inserting a USB disk failed because then the kernel could not allocate some memory buffer for the usbmass driver. So 64M sort of works, but

Re: Running out of RAM -- for the archives

2007-07-09 Thread Artur Grabowski
Karl O. Pinc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FYI, Running OpenBSD 4.0 stable, 32MB RAM, 3 identical nics. One symptom of running out of RAM is getting a panic on boot. The system boots fine with bsd.rd, but try to boot with the bsd image and you get (from handwritten notes): bmtphy1 at

Re: Running out of RAM -- for the archives

2007-07-07 Thread Nick Holland
Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 07/06/2007 06:46:26 PM, Chris Smith wrote: I assume the problem is not enough RAM because when I add more RAM everything works fine. Repeatable? Sure you've ruled out a seating problem? Yes, repeatable. yep, I'd believe that. Some time back (3.6?), when I stuffed

Running out of RAM -- for the archives

2007-07-06 Thread Karl O. Pinc
FYI, Running OpenBSD 4.0 stable, 32MB RAM, 3 identical nics. One symptom of running out of RAM is getting a panic on boot. The system boots fine with bsd.rd, but try to boot with the bsd image and you get (from handwritten notes): bmtphy1 at dcl phy1; BCM5201 10/100, rev. 2 dc2 at pci0 dev 12

Re: Running out of RAM -- for the archives

2007-07-06 Thread Chris Smith
I assume the problem is not enough RAM because when I add more RAM everything works fine. Repeatable? Sure you've ruled out a seating problem? R, C

Re: Running out of RAM -- for the archives

2007-07-06 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/06/2007 06:46:26 PM, Chris Smith wrote: I assume the problem is not enough RAM because when I add more RAM everything works fine. Repeatable? Sure you've ruled out a seating problem? Yes, repeatable. I didn't try to reseat the nic (or the ram), but it worked fine booting from the