On Fri 30 May 2014 at 16:56:01 +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> One open issue is the name - I somehow thought "reservee" would be a proper
> noune for "reserved memory", but apparently this does not work out well
> for native speakers, so it probably should be named something else.
> What about "mi
On Fri, 30 May 2014, Martin Husemann wrote:
> See mount_tmpfs(8), in the paragraph about the -s option:
>
>Note that four megabytes are always reserved for the system and cannot
>be assigned to the file system.
>
> Now, with a 3.2 MB text GENERIC kernel and 8 MB RAM, we certainly don't h
Martin Husemann wrote:
> <...>
>
> See mount_tmpfs(8), in the paragraph about the -s option:
>
>Note that four megabytes are always reserved for the system and cannot
>be assigned to the file system.
>
This wording may be confusing. tmpfs does not reserve the memory in a
sense of allo
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 04:56:01PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> I have been on a quest to make the stock vax install CD (-image) usable on
> VAX machines with 8 MB recently. (8 MB is the lowest I could persuade simh
> to emulate, for 4 MB we will need a custom kernel anyway and for smaller
> eve
On Thu, 5 Jun 2014, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 04:56:01PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > I have been on a quest to make the stock vax install CD (-image) usable on
> > VAX machines with 8 MB recently. (8 MB is the lowest I could persuade simh
> > to emulate, for 4 MB we wi
On Jun 5, 2014, at 8:47 AM, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 03:36:37PM +, Eduardo Horvath wrote:
>> Have you tested this?
>
> I ran an install on a 8 MB simh VAX, and it worked good enough for that.
> No, I wouldn't call that serious testing.
can you try using freetarg?
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 03:36:37PM +, Eduardo Horvath wrote:
> Have you tested this?
I ran an install on a 8 MB simh VAX, and it worked good enough for that.
No, I wouldn't call that serious testing.
Martin
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 08:50:07AM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
>
> can you try using freetarg?
Did that and it worked as well.
Does freetarg ever change after boot?
Martin
On Thu, 5 Jun 2014, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 08:50:07AM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
> >
> > can you try using freetarg?
>
> Did that and it worked as well.
>
> Does freetarg ever change after boot?
Maybe. It's set in uvmpd_tune(), which may be called by the page daemon
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 11:04:06PM +, Eduardo Horvath wrote:
> Maybe. It's set in uvmpd_tune(), which may be called by the page daemon
> in some circumstances. Take a look at sys/uvm/uvm_pdaemon.c.
Hmm, should this be made more explicit in the mount_tmpfs documentation?
Under such low memor
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