Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 16:39:03 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2.1R NFS and FTP load problem - More Info Message-ID: <199704072339.QAA05932@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Apr 1997 18:47:22 EDT." <3.0.32.19970407184719.00af9490@etinc.com>
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>At 08:51 PM 4/7/97 +0200, you wrote: >>On Sat, Apr 05, 1997 at 01:32:09PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: >>> > >That's odd.. I had no problems installing 2.2R or 2.2.1R over NFS >with an >>> > >old ISA-only 486 with 8MB of RAM. >>> > >>> > Since there seems to be widespread doubt about this conclusion, >>> > if someone can get me a boot disk with some diagnostics for >>> > memory usage I'd be more than happy to try to track this down (as >>> > its no doubt going to bite me in the future)....theres a limited amount >>> > of info that I can gather with the install disk unfortunatly..... > >Well, the machine with 8 meg of RAM seems to work OK when I do a >full developer load (sources), but fails on the "kernel developer" >selection. Could there be a bug there? Its a total pig when loading >the ports.....the throughput drops to like 5Kb and the disk sounds like >a choo-choo..... The ports tree is escentially a few thousand directories, and the blocks for those are written out to disk syncronously (although the filesystem is mounted async). I don't know why you're seeing a failure. Perhaps you could try doing a "ps" in the "emergency holographic shell"? -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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