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To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.2.1R NFS and FTP load problem - More Info 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 07 Apr 1997 18:47:22 EDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 16:39:03 -0700
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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