On Mar 16, 2010, at 6:04 PM, ron minnich wrote:
> I was wrong. I built a new kernel from sources and performance is
> still very bad, with a load of 2500 minimum.
>
> Also, venti, on this little machine, is a bit hungry for memory.
> venti...2010/0316 20:31:06 venti: conf.../boot/venti: mem 1,048,576
> bcmem 140,753,578 icmem 211,130,368...httpd
> tcp!127.1!8000...init...icache 211,130,368 bytes = 3,298,912 entries;
> 16 scache
> sync...2010/0316 20:31:12 arenas01: indexing 430 clumps...
> announce tcp!127.1!17034...serving.
> fossil(#S/sdC0/fossil)...fsys: dialing venti at tcp!127.1!17034
>
>
> This image formerly ran in 256M, now requires 512M, because venti
> footprint is 140+211+211 ... wait, how does it ever fit in 512 anyway.
>
> I think qemu changed too. An old kernel has the same problems. Not
> sure what is up here. but for now qemu on unongo 9.10 is useless for
> plan 9 from what I can see.
>
You could configure venti to be less aggressive with its use of memory, but
that would likely hurt performance.
Running venti inside qemu is silly. If you really want venti for your vm, run
venti on the host and target your in-vm fossil at it.
-eric
