>> Besides the obvious "buy more RAM", do you guys
>> have any suggestions for reducing memory use? I have run Plan 9 on
>> machines with 32 MB in the last few years so I presume this must have
>> something to do with the size of the file systems--correct?
>
> venti(8) has a very good discussion
I just remembered, I've got an old Nextstation Turbo Color under my desk...
I know there was a port for it at one time...
Does anyone still have the sources? I didn't see them on the kernel history
site.
Thanks in advance!
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Besides the obvious "buy more RAM", do you guys
have any suggestions for reducing memory use? I have run Plan 9 on
machines with 32 MB in the last few years so I presume this must have
something to do with the size of the file systems--correct?
venti(8) has a very good discussion of memory usa
> and of course since swap doesn't work I didn't even bother to make a
> partition for it.
i don't think i'd go as far as that for a cpu server, or even a terminal.
(paging over the net is tedious, but better than shutting things down
on overload.) file servers should be configured not to page (t
I've just installed Plan 9 on a new terminal that will soon become my
new auth/cpu/file server. It's a [EMAIL PROTECTED], 128MB of RAM, and a 500GB
hard drive. I made a 10GB fossil and gave the rest to venti. When I
boot, I find that pretty much all of the 128 megs is being used, and
of course s
